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Jeremiah P. Ostriker

1937 - 2025

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Jeremiah Paul Ostriker ( oh-STRY-kər; April 13, 1937 – April 6, 2025) was an American astrophysicist and a professor of astronomy at Columbia University and a Charles A. Young Professor Emeritus at Princeton, where he also served as a senior research scholar. Ostriker also served as a university administrator as Provost of Princeton University. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jeremiah P. Ostriker is the 511th most popular physicist (up from 817th in 2019), the 4,593rd most popular biography from United States (up from 12,871st in 2019) and the 106th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jeremiah P. Ostriker ranks 511 out of 851. Before him are Giovanni Aldini, Pierre Victor Auger, Dmitri Ivanenko, Frederick Guthrie, Nicola Cabibbo, and George Zweig. After him are G. M. B. Dobson, Lester Germer, Yakir Aharonov, Ivan Puluj, Louis-François-Clement Breguet, and Clyde Cowan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Jeremiah P. Ostriker ranks 226. Before him are Eduard Artemyev, George Zweig, Barbara Steele, Loretta Swit, Robert Ressler, and Joe Viterelli. After him are Tomas Venclova, Claude Allègre, Jackie Collins, George Kerr, Alfredo M. Bonanno, and Valentin Rasputin. Among people deceased in 2025, Jeremiah P. Ostriker ranks 150. Before him are Bernhard Vogel, Kiril Ivkov, Gazi Yaşargil, Loretta Swit, Dick Button, and Taina Elg. After him are Pamela Bach, Claude Allègre, Xu Qiliang, Garth Hudson, Roy Ayers, and Edmund White.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jeremiah P. Ostriker ranks 4,593 out of 20,380. Before him are John Stagliano (1951), Desireé Cousteau (1956), Sandra Day O'Connor (1930), Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824), Roy Chapman Andrews (1884), and Howard Da Silva (1909). After him are Paul Volcker (1927), Dean Smith (1932), Charles Evans Hughes (1862), Andre Norton (1912), Robert Penn Warren (1905), and Minnie Riperton (1947).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Jeremiah P. Ostriker ranks 106. Before him are Clarence Zener (1905), Mildred Dresselhaus (1930), Alan Sokal (1955), Robert Brout (1928), Theodore Hall (1925), and Robert Serber (1909). After him are Lester Germer (1896), Clyde Cowan (1919), David J. Griffiths (1942), Maurice Karnaugh (1924), Leona Woods (1919), and Ira Sprague Bowen (1898).

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