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.