Peter Goldreich
| Peter Goldreich | |
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Peter Goldreich in 1980
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| Born | July 14, 1939 |
| Fields | Astronomy and Astrophysics |
| Institutions |
Caltech Institute for Advanced Study |
| Alma mater | Cornell University |
| Doctoral advisor | Thomas Gold |
| Notable awards |
Chapman Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1985) |
Chapman Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1985)
Brouwer Award (1986)
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1993)
National Medal of Science (1995)
Peter Goldreich (born July 14, 1939) is an American astrophysicist whose research focuses on celestial mechanics, planetary rings, helioseismology and neutron stars. He is currently 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.
Goldreich received a bachelor of science in engineering physics from Cornell University in 1960, and obtained a Ph.D. from Cornell in 1963 under the supervision of Thomas Gold. In 1963 and 1964 Goldreich was a postdoctoral fellow at Cambridge University. From 1964 to 1966 he was an Assistant Professor of Astronomy & Geophysics at UCLA. Goldreich joined the faculty at Caltech in 1966 as an associate professor. He later became a full professor in 1969 while remaining at Caltech, and in 1981 he became the Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Astrophysics & Planetary Physics also at Caltech. He also sits on the Board of Adjudicators for the Shaw Prize, and the selection committee for Astronomy Prizes.
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