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Jeremiah Paul "Jerry" Ostriker ( oh-STRY -kər [3] astrophysicist and a professor of astronomy at Columbia University [4] [5] Emeritus [6] university administrator as Provost of Princeton University .
Education [ edit ]
He received his B.A. from Harvard and his Ph.D from the University of Chicago .
Career and research [ edit ]
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 .[7]
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 .[8] 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 [9]
Ostriker is also known for the Ostriker–Peebles criterion , relating to the stability of galactic formation.
Publications [ edit ]
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:
"Precision Cosmology? Not Just Yet"[10]
Heart of Darkness, Unraveling the Mysteries of the Invisible Universe
New Light on Dark Matter , Science, 300, pp 1909–1914 (2003) doi :10.1126/Science.1085976
The Probability Distribution Function of Light in the Universe: Results from Hydrodynamic Simulations , Astrophysical Journal 597, 1 (2003)
Cosmic Mach Number as a Function of Overdensity and Galaxy Age , Astrophysical Journal, 553, 513 (2001)
Collisional Dark Matter and the Origin of Massive Black Holes , Physical Review Letters, 84, 5258-5260 (2000).
Hydrodynamics of Accretion onto Black Holes , Adv. Space Res., 7, 951-960 (1998). doi :10.1016/S0273-1177(98 )00127-6
Awards and honors [ edit ]
Ostriker has won numerous awards and honors including:
Membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1975)[12]
Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) (1972)
Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the AAS (1980)
INSA -Vainu Bappu Memorial Award (1993)
Membership of the American Philosophical Society (1994)[13]
Foreign membership of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999)[14]
Karl Schwarzschild Medal (1999)
National Medal of Science by U.S. President Bill Clinton (2000)
Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement (2001)[15]
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2004)
Elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2007 [1]
Bruce Medal (2011)
James Craig Watson Medal (2012)
White House Champion of Change (2013)
Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2015)
Elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020. [16]
Personal life [ edit ]
Ostriker married noted poet and essayist Alicia Ostriker (née Suskin) in 1959. Together they have three adult children: Rebecca, Eve , and Gabriel.[7] [17] Princeton, New Jersey .[18]
References [ edit ]
^ Jeremiah P. Ostriker at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
^ "Jerry Ostriker" . YouTube . October 4, 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2023 .
^ Who's who in Frontiers of Science and Technology
^ 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 .
^ "Jeremiah P. Ostriker Biography" .
^ a b Jeremiah P. Ostriker biography
^ de Swart, J. G.; Bertone, G.; van Dongen, J. (2017). "How dark matter came to matter". Nature Astronomy . 1 59 ): 0059. arXiv :1703.00013 Bibcode :2017NatAs...1E..59D . doi :10.1038/s41550-017-0059 . S2CID 119092226 .
^ "FACULTY HONOR: Ostriker named White House Champion of Change" . Princeton University . June 19, 2013. Retrieved June 21, 2013 .
^ Bridle, Sarah L. ; Lahav, Ofer ; Ostriker, Jeremiah P. ; Steinhardt, Paul J. (2003). "Precision Cosmology? Not Just Yet". Science . 299 (5612): 1532–1533. arXiv :astro-ph/0303180 Bibcode :2003Sci...299.1532B . doi :10.1126/science.1082158 . PMID 12624255 . S2CID 119368762 .
^ "Jeremiah P. Ostriker" .
^ "Jeremiah Paul Ostriker" . 13 September 2023.
^ "APS Member History" .
^ "J.P. Ostriker" . Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences . Archived from the original on 13 February 2016. Retrieved 13 February 2016 .
^ "Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement" . www.achievement.org . American Academy of Achievement .
^ "AAS Fellows" . AAS. Retrieved 30 September 2020 .
^ Ostriker, Jeremiah P. (September 2016). "A fortunate half-century" . Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics . 54 1 ). Annual Reviews: 1–17. Bibcode :2016ARA&A..54....1O . doi :10.1146/annurev-astro-081915-023259
^ "Poet Alicia Ostriker to read in Highland Park" , Courier News
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