Hill

George William Hill

Born: 3 March 1838 in New York, USA
Died: 16 April 1914 in West Nyack, New York, USA

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Hill studied at Rutgers graduating in 1859, then joined the Nautical Almanac Office in 1861.

Hill was the first to use infinite determinants to study the orbit of the Moon (1877). He also developed a theory of the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn. His most important work dealt with the gravitational effects of the planets on the Moon's orbit.

Hill became a Fellow of the Royal Society (1902) receiving its Copley Medal in 1909. He was president of the American Mathematical Society from 1894 to 1896.

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References:

  1. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica
  2. The Collected Mathematical Works of George William Hill (Carnegie Institute). 
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