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Jeremiah Paul "Jerry" Ostriker (born April 13, 1937) is an American astrophysicist and a professor of astronomy at Columbia University[3][4] and is the Charles A. Young Professor Emeritus at Princeton where he also continues as a Senior Research Scholar.[5] Ostriker has also served as a university administrator as Provost of Princeton University.

Jerry Ostriker
Born	Jeremiah Paul Ostriker (1937-04-13) April 13, 1937 (age 85) New York City, U.S.
Alma mater	Harvard University University of Chicago
Known for	Astrophysicist University administrator
Spouse	Alicia Ostriker ​ (m. 1959)​
Children	3
Awards	Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy (1972) National Medal of Science (2000) Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2004) ForMemRS (2007)[1] Bruce Medal (2011) James Craig Watson Medal (2012)
Scientific career
Institutions	Columbia University Princeton University University of Cambridge
Doctoral advisor	Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar[citation needed][2]
Doctoral students	Edmund Bertschinger Ue-Li Pen Scott Tremaine Ellen Zweibel
Website	www.astro.princeton.edu/people/webpages/jpo/

Education

He received his B.A. from Harvard, and his Ph.D at the University of Chicago.

Career and research

After earning his Ph.D. at Chicago he conducted post-doctoral work at the University of Cambridge. From 1971 to 1995, Ostriker was a professor at Princeton, and served as Provost there from 1995 to 2001. From 2001 to 2003, he was appointed as Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. He then returned to Princeton as the Charles Young Professor of Astronomy and is now the Charles A. Young Professor Emeritus.[6] He continues as a Senior Research Scholar at Princeton and became a Professor of Astronomy at Columbia in 2012.

Ostriker has been very influential in advancing the theory that most of the mass in the universe is not visible at all, but consists of dark matter.[7] His research has also focused on the interstellar medium, galaxy evolution, cosmology and black holes. On June 20, 2013 Ostriker was given the White House Champions of Change Award for his role in initiating the Sloan Digital Sky Survey project, which makes all of its astronomical data sets available publicly on the Internet [8]

Ostriker is also known for the Ostriker–Peebles criterion, relating to the stability of galactic formation.

Publications

As of April 2021, Ostriker's articles have been cited over 85,910 times and he has an h-index of 130 (130 papers with at least 130 citations) according to the NASA Astrophysics Data System including:

Awards and honors

Ostriker has won numerous awards and honors including:

Personal life

Ostriker married noted poet and essayist Alicia Ostriker (née Suskin) in 1959. Together they have three adult children: Rebecca, Eve, and Gabriel.[6] Like her father, Eve became an astrophysics professor at Princeton University, in 2012, the same year as her father's retirement.[16] Jeremiah and Alicia Ostriker have been residents of Princeton, New Jersey.[17]

References

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[de] Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Jeremiah Paul Ostriker (* 13. April 1937 in New York City[1]) ist ein US-amerikanischer Astrophysiker.

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- [en] Jeremiah P. Ostriker

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[fr] Jeremiah Ostriker

Jeremiah Paul Ostriker, ou Jerry Ostriker, né le 13 avril 1937, est un astrophysicien de l'université de Princeton.

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[it] Jeremiah Ostriker

Jeremiah P. Ostriker (13 aprile 1937) è un astrofisico e astronomo statunitense.

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[ru] Острайкер, Джереми

Джереми Пол Острайкер (англ. Jeremiah Paul «Jerry» Ostriker; род. 13 апреля 1937, Нью-Йорк) — американский теоретик-астрофизик и космолог. Профессор Принстонского университета, его проректор в 1995—2001 годах, член НАН США и Американского философского общества, иностранный член Лондонского королевского общества (2007). Удостоен Национальной научной медали (2000).

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