Carl E. Heiles

Carl Eugene Heiles (born 1939) is an American astrophysicist noted for his contribution to the understanding of diffuse interstellar matter through observational radio astronomy. Heiles was born in Toledo, Ohio. He did his undergraduate work at Cornell University, receiving a degree in engineering physics, and then received his doctorate in 1966 from Princeton University in astrophysical sciences. He has worked at the University of California, Berkeley since, and is currently a professor of astronomy. While Heiles was still a graduate student at Princeton, he wrote a paper with Michel Hénon about a third integral of motion in axisymmetric potentials, from which the Hénon-Heiles equation is drawn. Though his paper with Hénon has been...