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Born | Jeremiah Paul Ostriker April 13, 1937 New York City, U.S. |
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Children | 3 |
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Doctoral advisor | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar[2] |
Doctoral students | Edmund Bertschinger Ue-Li Pen Scott Tremaine Ellen Zweibel |
Website | www |
Jeremiah Paul "Jerry" Ostriker (/ˌoʊˈstraɪkər/ oh-STRY-kər;[3] born April 13, 1937) is an American astrophysicist and a professor of astronomy at Columbia University[4][5] and is the Charles A. Young Professor Emeritus at Princeton, where he also continues as a senior research scholar.[6] Ostriker has also served as a university administrator as Provost of Princeton University.