Douglas C. Heggie
Scottish applied mathematician and astronomer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Douglas Cameron Heggie FRSE (born 7 February 1947) is a Scottish applied mathematician and astronomer, formerly holding the Personal Chair of Mathematical Astronomy at the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh. His main research interests are in stellar dynamics.
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Born | Douglas Cameron Heggie (1947-02-07) 7 February 1947 (age 77) Edinburgh, Scotland |
Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
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Institutions | University of Cambridge University of Edinburgh |
Thesis | Binary Evolution in Stellar Dynamics (1972) |
Doctoral advisor | Sverre Aarseth |
Website | www |
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