Scott Tremaine is a fellow of the Royal Society of London, the Royal Society of Canada and the National Academy of Sciences.
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Scott Tremaine is credited with coining the name "Kuiper belt".
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Scott Tremaine obtained a bachelor's degree at McMaster University in 1971, and a PhD from Princeton University in 1975.
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Scott Tremaine further received an honorary PhD from McMaster University in 1996.
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Scott Tremaine was an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1981 to 1985.
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Scott Tremaine became the first director of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Toronto in 1986, a position he held until the end of his ten-year term in 1996.
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Scott Tremaine gained the rare distinction of "University Professor" at the University of Toronto in 1995.
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Scott Tremaine is currently a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, for which he left Princeton University in 2007, being replaced as department chair by David Spergel.
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Scott Tremaine cowrote the book Galactic Dynamics with James Binney, which is often regarded as the standard reference in the field and has been cited more than three thousand times in scholarly publications.
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Scott Tremaine is credited with suggesting that the apparent "double nucleus" of the Andromeda Galaxy was in fact a single ring of old red stars.
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In 1999, Scott Tremaine received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from St Mary's University.
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In 1994, Scott Tremaine became a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and of the Royal Society of Canada.