Gordon Hamilton (scientist)

Gordon Hamilton (c. 1966 – October 22, 2016) was a Scottish climate scientist who studied glaciers. He died on a trip to Antarctica in 2016 when his snowmobile fell into a crevasse. He was 50 at the time of his death.

Native to Scotland, Hamilton received a doctorate from the University of Cambridge and was a professor of the University of Maine.

The Hamilton Glacier on the Antarctic Edward VII Peninsula has been named after him since 2003. A 2010 New York Times article documented the danger involved in Hamilton's field work noting that climate scientists including Hamilton and others were willing to take risks in order to retrieve temperature data that is essential to their work.