Jack G. Hills
American astronomer
Jack Gilbert Hills (born 15 May 1943) is a theorist of stellar dynamics. He worked on the Oort cloud; the inner part of it, the Hills cloud, was named after him. The Hills mechanism is also named after him.
He studied at the University of Kansas, where he was awarded an A.B. in 1966 and an M.A. in 1967. He was also awarded an M.S. and a PhD by the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He defended his thesis on the formation and evolution of the Solar System in 1969. His advisor was Richard L. Sears.
He spent much of his professional career at Los Alamos National Laboratory, which named him a Laboratory Fellow in 1998.
The Hills mechanism in astrophysics is also named after him. He proposed the mechanism in the 1980s.
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