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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Title:

Provost and Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy

Affiliation:

Princeton University

Princeton,New Jersey  USA

Gender:

Male

Award Discipline:

Physical Sciences

Award Year:

2000

Citation:

"For his bold astrophysical insights, which have revolutionized concepts of the nature of pulsars, the "ecosystem" of stars and gas in our Galaxy, the sizes and masses of galaxies, the nature and distribution of dark matter and ordinary matter in the Universe, and the formation of galaxies and other cosmological structures."

Presented by Dr. Neal Lane, Assistant to the President for Science & Technology, at a black-tie dinner awards ceremony at the National Building Museum, Washington, DC, Friday, December 1, 2000.

 

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