| George W. Hill AKA George William Hill Born: 3-Mar-1838
Birthplace: New York City
Died: 16-Apr-1914
Location of death: West Nyack, NY
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Astronomer, Mathematician Nationality: United States
Executive summary: A New Theorie of Jupiter and Saturn Military service: US Navy (1859-61) George W. Hill was one of his era's leading experts on celestial mechanics. The first astronomer to use infinite determinants to calculate the Moon's orbit, he is the namesake of Hill's equation, the second-order ordinary differential equation. Reclusive by nature, Hill never married, and taught for only three years late in his career, after retiring from the Navy's Nautical Almanac Office. Father: John William Hill (artistic engraver)
Mother: Catherine Smith Hill
High School: Clarkstown High School, West Nyack, NY (1855)
University: BA Mathematics, Rutgers University (1859)
Scholar: Nautical Almanac Office (1859-77)
Administrator: Superintendent of Nautical Almanac Office (1877-92)
Professor: Astronomy, Columbia University (1898-1901)
Copley Medal 1909
Bruce Medal 1909
Accademia dei Lincei
American Mathematical Society President (1894-96)
French Academy of Sciences Corresponding Member
National Academy of Sciences 1874
Royal Astronomical Society
Royal Society 1902
Royal Society of Edinburgh 1908
Russian Academy of Sciences Foreign Member
Lunar Crater Crater Hill
Asteroid Namesake 1642 Hill
English Ancestry
Huguenot Ancestry
Author of books:
A New Theorie of Jupiter and Saturn (1890)
The Collected Mathematical Works (1907, four volumes)
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