Carl E. Heiles

Carl Eugene Heiles ( born September 22, 1939 in Toledo, Ohio) is an American astronomer.

Salvation graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor's degree in engineering in 1962 and in 1966 received his doctorate from Princeton University in astrophysics. Since 1966 he is professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

He was in 1983 a visiting scholar at the University of Grenoble, 1969/70 at Cornell University and in 1990 at the University of Colorado Boulder.

It deals with radio astronomy and Interstellar Matter ( role of diffuse gases). He participated in 1982 at the discovery of the first millisecond pulsar PSR B 1937 21, with 1.55 milliseconds rotation time ..

With Michel Hénon he is known for the Henon - Heiles model, the meaning in chaos theory has ..

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1989 he received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics.