Scott Tremaine

Quick Facts

Full Name	Scott Tremaine
Occupation	Astronomer
Date Of Birth	May 25, 1950(1950-05-25)
Age	74
Birthplace	Toronto
Country	Canada
Birth City	Ontario
Horoscope	Taurus

Scott Tremaine Biography

Scott Tremaine is one of the most popular and richest Astronomer who was born on May 25, 1950 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Scott Duncan Tremaine (born 1950) is an astrophysicist from Canada. The fellow is part of the Royal Society of London, the Royal Society of Canada and the National Academy of Sciences. Tremaine is widely considered to be one of the world’s top astrophysicists due to their contributions to the study of the galactic dynamics and the solar system. Tremaine is the name given to the asteroid 3806 Tremaine. He is believed to have invented the term “Kuiper belt”.

In 1990, Tremaine won the C.S. Beals Prize of the Canadian Astronomical Society which is given for exceptional research by the Canadian Astronomer or Astronomer who is based in Canada.

In 1994, Tremaine became a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and also of the Royal Society of Canada.

In 1996, Tremaine was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science award by McMaster University.

The year 1983 was the year that Tremaine received the Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy presented by the American Astronomical Society in recognition of “his many outstanding contributions to a wide range of dynamical problems in both solar-system and galactic dynamics”.

Scott Tremaine Net Worth

Scott Tremaine is one of the richest Astronomer from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Scott Tremaine 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He received a bachelor’s diploma in 1971 from McMaster University back in 1971 and earned a doctorate at Princeton University in 1975. He was also awarded an honorary doctorate in the same year from McMaster University in 1996. As an adjunct professor, he taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1981 until 1985. He was appointed Director of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Toronto in 1986 which he held until 1996. He earned the distinction of being a “University Professor” at the University of Toronto in 1995. The year 1997 saw him quit CITA and accepted an appointment as a faculty member of Princeton University, becoming chair of the department of Astrophysical Sciences faculty from 1998 until 2006.

Tremaine and Peter Goldreich, correctly predicted that shepherd moons were responsible for Saturn’s thin F rings and the rings that were thin on Uranus in 1979. In 1979, the Saturnian moons Prometheus and Pandora were first discovered in 1981. Shepherding moons were observed within Uranus rings in the year 1986. Tremaine co-authored this book Galactic Dynamics with James Binney and James Binney, which is frequently considered the standard reference in the field. It has been quoted more than 3000 times in scientific publications. Tremaine together with his collaborators with colleagues at University of Toronto, and collaborators at University of Toronto, showed that comets with short periods originate from the Kuiper belt. Tremaine is believed to have suggested an idea that this apparent “double nucleus” of the Andromeda Galaxy was in fact one ring of red stars.

In 1990, Tremaine was awarded the Rutherford Memorial Medal in Physics by the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada for “his outstanding contributions to the field to [sic] astrophysics, particularly his spectacular success in predicting the properties of planetary ring dynamics and the extraplanetary objects that control them”.

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In 2005, Tremaine won the Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

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Scott Ranked on the list of most popular Astronomer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Scott Tremaine celebrates birthday on May 25 of every year.

In 2010, Tremaine received an honorary doctorate from the University of Toronto “in recognition of his scholarly contributions to the field of astrophysics, and his administrative leadership in support of Canadian and international science”.