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George William Hill

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Gender Male
Death110 years ago
Date of birth March 3,1838
Zodiac sign Pisces
Born New York
United States
Date of died April 16,1914
DiedWest Nyack
New York
United States
Parents John William Hill
Known forHill differential equation
Hill sphere
Lunar theory
Job Mathematician
Astronomer
Education Rutgers University
BooksThe Phonograph Witness, A Drama In Five Acts
Biographical Memoir of Asaph Hall, 1829-1907
The Collected Mathematical Works of George William Hill
Tables of Venus: Prepared for the Use of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac
Tables of Venus
Papers Relating to the Transit of Venus in 1874: Prepared Under the Direction of the Commission
Awards Copley Medal
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bruce Medal
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George William Hill Life story


George William Hill was an American astronomer and mathematician. Working independently and largely in isolation from the wider scientific community, he made major contributions to celestial mechanics and to the theory of ordinary differential equations.

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