Jack Wisdom is a Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D from Caltech in 1981. His research interests are the dynamics of the Solar System.

In 1986, he was awarded the H. C. Urey Prize by the American Astronomical Society; in 1987 the same organization awarded him the Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy. In 1994, Wisdom was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship by the MacArthur Foundation.