(1953-01-28) January 28, 1953
American
Caltech (Ph.D., 1981)Rice University (B.S., 1976)
Planetary Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peter Goldreich[1]
Jihad R. Touma[2]
of the American Astronomical Society (1986)
of the AAS (1987)[17]
The asteroid was named in his honor (1988)
from the MacArthur Foundation (1994)
of the Division on Dynamical Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society (2001)
Elected a Legacy Fellow of the in 2020. [18]
from Chris Van Den Broeck (Astronomy, University of Wales)