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. The importance of his work was explicitly acknowledged by Henri Poincaré in 1905. In 1909 Hill was awarded the Royal Society's Copley Medal, "on the ground of his researches in mathematical astronomy". Hill is remembered for the Hill differential equation, along with the Hill sphere.
George William Hill, American astronomer and mathematician (born 1838)
George William Hill, American astronomer and mathematician (born 1838)
On April 16, in the year 1914, George William Hill, American astronomer and mathematician (born 1838). This event is recorded as a Notable Deaths event in the history of April 16, one of 433 recorded events on this date across all of history.
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- This event took place on April 16, 1914 (AD era).
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