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Douglas C. Heggie

Douglas C. Heggie, FRSE is a Scottish mathematician, formerly holding the Personal Chair of Mathematical Astronomy at the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests are in stellar dynamics, especially the three-body problem, the dynamical evolution of star clusters, and related applications of high-performance computing. He is especially known for his pioneering work on the dynamical evolution of binary stars. He is one of the originators of the current paradigm of the dynamical evolution of collisional stellar systems and has made seminal contributions also to the quantitative study of prehistoric mathematics and astronomy. On these topics, he has authored or co-authored of two books: "The Gravitational Million-Body Problem: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Star Cluster Dynamics" and "Megalithic Science".

Biographical statement

After a decade as a student and research fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, his entire professional career has been based in Edinburgh, with prolonged research visits to Princeton, Cambridge, Kyoto, and Warsaw. He was appointed to a Professorship in Edinburgh in 1994. He has served as President of Commission 37 ('Star Clusters and Associations') of the International Astronomical Union, on the Council of the Royal Astronomical Society of London, as an Editor of long standing of its main research journal, Monthly Notices, as well as Advisor Editor of the Journal for the History of Astronomy.

Honours

Recipient of the Tyson Medal (1969) and Smith's Prize (1971). Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1989).

Categories Academics of the University of Edinburgh 21st-century British mathematicians

Alma mater University of Cambridge