Chapman Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1985)[1]
Brouwer Award (1986)
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1993)[2][3]
National Medal of Science (1995)
Shaw Prize (2007)
Scientific career
Fields
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Institutions
Caltech Institute for Advanced Study
Doctoral advisor
Thomas Gold
Doctoral students
Richard McCray
Carolyn Porco
Jack Wisdom
Yanqin Wu
Peter Goldreich (born July 14, 1939) is an American astrophysicist whose research focuses on celestial mechanics, planetary rings, helioseismology and neutron stars.[4] 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.[5][1] Asteroid 3805 Goldreich is named after him.[6]
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PeterGoldreich (born July 14, 1939) is an American astrophysicist whose research focuses on celestial mechanics, planetary rings, helioseismology and...
respectively, and the large asteroid Pallas is inclined at 34°. In 1966, PeterGoldreich published a classic paper on the evolution of the Moon's orbit and...
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences. Supervised by dynamicist PeterGoldreich, she wrote her doctoral dissertation focused on Voyager discoveries...
589–639. Bibcode:1998RvMP...70..589G. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.70.589. PeterGoldreich (Nov 1966). "History of the Lunar Orbit". Reviews of Geophysics. 4...
1980. Wolfram's thesis committee was composed of Richard Feynman, PeterGoldreich, Frank J. Sciulli and Steven Frautschi, and chaired by Richard D. Field...
and thereby catalyzing star formation. Beginning in the late 1970s, PeterGoldreich, Frank Shu, and others applied density wave theory to the rings of...
Bibcode:2002ApJ...566L.125T. doi:10.1086/339437. S2CID 11519263. PeterGoldreich (November 1966). "History of the Lunar Orbit". Reviews of Geophysics...
September 2022. Retrieved 29 September 2022. "Caltech Astrophysicist PeterGoldreich Wins $1 Million International Shaw Prize". California Institute of...
441–455. Bibcode:2003E&PSL.216..441S. doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00546-6. PeterGoldreich; Yoram Lithwick; Re'em Sari (10 October 2004). "Final Stages of Planet...
Rubin 1994—Albert Overhauser, Frank Press 1995—Hans Georg Dehmelt, PeterGoldreich 1996—Wallace Smith Broecker 1997—Marshall Rosenbluth, Martin Schwarzschild...
National Academy of Sciences Samuel Epstein, geochemist Kenneth Farley PeterGoldreich, Shaw Prize laureate, National Medal of Science recipient John P. Grotzinger...
theory", The Sunday Times. Glasby 2006, p. 90. Cole 1996, p. 748. Aldhous, Peter (1991), "Black Gold Causes a Stir", Nature, 353 (593): 55, Bibcode:1991Natur...
1978 – The Pioneer Venus probe maps the surface of Venus. 1978 – PeterGoldreich and Scott Tremaine present a Boltzmann equation model of planetary-ring...
Biddell Airy, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, George Bishop, George Everest, Peter Andreas Hansen, Karl Ludwig Hencke, John Herschel, John Russell Hind, John...
astronomy and physics from UCLA in 1965 (advisors George Abell and PeterGoldreich) and his doctorate in astronomy from Cornell University in 1971 (advisors...
Excitation and Saturation of White Dwarf Pulsation, was supervised by PeterGoldreich. After postdoctoral research at Queen Mary University of London from...
section of the Association for Computing Machinery. Tremaine, along with PeterGoldreich, correctly predicted that shepherd moons created Saturn's thin F ring...
constructed so that Q<1 implies instability. Toomre collaborated with PeterGoldreich in 1969 on the subject of polar wander, developing the theory of polar...
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