| LC control no. | n 86012494 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Tremaine, Scott, 1950- |
| See also | Employer: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Employer: University of Toronto Employer: Princeton University Employer: Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.) Graduate of: McMaster University Graduate of: Princeton University |
| Other standard no. | Q363194 104912152 0000000109301190 |
| Associated country | Canada |
| Birth date | 1950-05-25 |
| Place of birth | Toronto (Ont.) |
| Field of activity | Astrophysics |
| Affiliation | Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Toronto Princeton University Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.) |
| Profession or occupation | Astrophysicists College teachers College department heads |
| Found in | Binney, J. Galactic dynamics, c1988: CIP t.p. (Scott Tremaine) data sheet (b. 5/25/50) publ. info. (Ph.D. '75, Princeton Univ.; prof. and director of Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Univ. of Toronto) Wikipedia, July 12, 2022 (Scott Tremaine; Scott Duncan Tremaine (born 1950) is a Canadian-born astrophysicist. Born in Toronto, Ontario. He obtained a bachelor's degree at McMaster University in 1971, and a PhD from Princeton University in 1975. He was an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1981 to 1985. He became the first director of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Toronto in 1986, a position he held until 1996. In 1997, he left CITA and took up a position as a professor at Princeton University, becoming chair of the Astrophysical Sciences department from 1998 to 2006. Scott Tremaine is currently a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, for which he left Princeton University in 2007) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Tremaine> |
| Associated language | eng |
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