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Paul Ostriker (born 1937) is an astrophysicist at Princeton University.
He received his B.A. from Harvard, his Ph.D at the University of
Chicago, and then carried out post-doctoral work at the University of
Cambridge. From 1971 to 1995, Ostriker was a professor at Princeton, and
served as Provost there from 1995 to 2001. From 2001 to 2003, he was
appointed as Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy
at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. He has since returned to
Princeton.