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Jack Wisdom
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Jack Wisdom is a Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D from Caltech in 1981. His research interests are the dynamics of the Solar System.
Jack Wisdom is co-author of Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics. His 2003 paper in Science on a new geometric phase effect which Wisdom calls "spacetime swimming" has attracted considerable attention, although it is not yet clear whether this effect has practical utility or even can be used to devise new tests of relaivistic gravitation theories.
- H. C. Urey Prize of the American Astronomical Society (1986)
- Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy of the AAS (1987)
- MacArthur Fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation (1994)
- Brouwer Award of the Division on Dynamical Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society (2002)
- Wisdom's academic home page
- Spacetime swimming from Chris Van Den Broeck (Astronomy, University of Wales)
- Wisdom, Jack (2003). "Swimming in spacetime: motion by cyclic changes in body shape". Science 299: 1865-1869.
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