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Peter Goldreich

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Peter Goldreich (born July 14, 1939) is an American astrophysicist whose research focuses on celestial mechanics, planetary rings, helioseismology and neutron stars. He is the Lee DuBridge Professor of Astrophysics and Planetary Physics at California Institute of Technology. Since 2005 he has also been a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Asteroid 3805 Goldreich is named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Goldreich is the 582nd most popular astronomer (down from 567th in 2024), the 11,185th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,913th in 2019) and the 120th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Peter Goldreich ranks 582 out of 644. Before him are Rosaly Lopes, Naoto Satō, Mary Ward, Makio Akiyama, Yoshisada Shimizu, and Masaru Arai. After him are Dorrit Hoffleit, Philip Herbert Cowell, Osamu Muramatsu, Satoru Otomo, Silvia Torres-Peimbert, and Bruce C. Murray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Peter Goldreich ranks 566. Before him are Ted Kaufman, Pavel Morozenko, Mary Peters, Basil van Rooyen, Pam Kilborn, and Jackie Burroughs. After him are Don Williams, John M. Fabian, Dorothy Shirley, Carl Yastrzemski, Paul Craig Roberts, and Jet Harris.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Peter Goldreich ranks 11,190 out of 20,380. Before him are Isabelle Daniels (1937), Angelina Grimké (1805), John Lawrence LeConte (1825), Pauline Starke (1901), Stanford R. Ovshinsky (1922), Little Willie John (1937), Camilla Belle (1986), Stephen Decatur (1779), and Aldo Ray (1926). After him are Augusta Savage (1892), William Cameron Townsend (1896), and Beverly Garland (1926).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Peter Goldreich ranks 120. Before him are Irwin I. Shapiro (1929), Scott S. Sheppard (1977), Lawrence H. Aller (1913), Thomas Bopp (1949), John August Anderson (1876), and David Rittenhouse (1732). After him are Dorrit Hoffleit (1907), Bruce C. Murray (1931), A. E. Douglass (1867), Christian Pollas (1947), Matthew J. Holman (1967), and David J. Tholen (1955).

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