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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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jeremiah P. Ostriker has received more than 106,963 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Jeremiah P. Ostriker is the 817th most popular physicist, the 12,872nd most popular biography from United States and the 190th most popular American Physicist.

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  • 2.71

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jeremiah P. Ostriker ranks 817 out of 851. Before him are Herbert Goldstein, Carlos Frenk, J. Richard Gott, Richard A. Muller, Marcia Barbosa, and Albert-László Barabási. After him are Sverker Johansson, Howard Georgi, Paul Steinhardt, Jim Al-Khalili, Carver Mead, and Mary K. Gaillard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Jeremiah P. Ostriker ranks 538. Before him are Jenő Kamuti, Bessie Head, Mel Pender, Lorne Loomer, Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, and Jarosława Jóźwiakowska. After him are Eleanor Holmes Norton, Bob Boozer, Joseph Wambaugh, Paul Stookey, Nelson Kuhn, and Viktor Yakushev. Among people deceased in 2025, Jeremiah P. Ostriker ranks 117. Before him are David Johansen, Brian Murphy, Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak, Thelma Hopkins, Julius Chan, and Cristóbal Ortega. After him are Joseph Wambaugh, Fred Newhouse, Baldur Preiml, Peter Yarrow, Juan Aguilera, and Jerry Butler.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jeremiah P. Ostriker ranks 12,872 out of 20,380. Before him are Dale Evans (1912), Kasey Keller (1969), LisaGay Hamilton (1964), Steve Oedekerk (1961), Hillary Wolf (1977), and Barbara Cochran (1951). After him are Kimberly Kane (1983), Fortune Gordien (1922), Vonda Shepard (1963), Anita Barone (1964), Amy Carlson (1968), and Samoa Joe (1979).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Jeremiah P. Ostriker ranks 190. Before him are Stephen L. Adler (1939), Karl Taylor Compton (1887), Ernest Moniz (1944), Herbert Goldstein (1922), J. Richard Gott (1947), and Richard A. Muller (1944). After him are Howard Georgi (1947), Paul Steinhardt (1952), Carver Mead (1934), Mary K. Gaillard (1939), Sidney Drell (1926), and Paul Ginsparg (1955).

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