Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Jerry Ostriker
Born
Jeremiah Paul Ostriker

(1937-04-13) April 13, 1937 (age 87)
New York City, U.S.
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(m. 1959)​
Children3
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Doctoral advisorSubrahmanyan Chandrasekhar[2]
Doctoral studentsEdmund Bertschinger
Ue-Li Pen
Scott Tremaine
Ellen Zweibel
Websitewww.astro.princeton.edu/people/webpages/jpo/

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.

  1. ^ "Professor Jeremiah Ostriker ForMemRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-11-17.
  2. ^ Jeremiah P. Ostriker at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ "Jerry Ostriker". YouTube. October 4, 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  4. ^ Who's who in Frontiers of Science and Technology
  5. ^ Powell, C.S. (1994). "Profile: Jeremiah and Alicia Ostriker – A Marriage of Science and Art". Scientific American. 271 (3): 28–31. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0994-28.
  6. ^ "Jeremiah P. Ostriker Biography".