Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Details

Instance of

human

Born

13 April 1937

Died

6 April 2025

Place of birth

New York City

Place of death

Manhattan

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Jeremiah, Paul

Family name

Ostriker

Spouse

Alicia Ostriker

Field of work

astrophysics

Occupation

astronomer, astrophysicist, university teacher

Citizenship

United States

Awards

Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy, Henry Norris Russell Lectureship, Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, National Medal of Science, Karl Schwarzschild Medal, Bruce Medal, Gruber Prize in Cosmology, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, James Craig Watson Medal

cause of death

kidney disease

doctoral advisor

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

doctoral student

Edmund Bertschinger, Luca Ciotti, Ellen Gould Zweibel, Ue-Li Pen, David H. Weinberg, James Wai-Kee Mark, Charles Gammie, Robert Hugh Sanders, Sudeep Das, Richard H. Durisen, Roger A. Chevalier, Douglas O Richstone

educated at

Harvard University, University of Chicago

employer

Princeton University, Columbia University

languages spoken, written or signed

English

manner of death

natural causes

member of

National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, Royal Society of London, International Astronomical Union

name in native language

Jeremiah Paul Ostriker

number of children

3

writing language

English

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