以表彰他一生在理論天體物理學和行星科學中取得的成就。
2007年邵逸夫天文學獎將頒予美國加州理工學院和普林斯頓高等研究所的彼得．高里教授，以表彰他一生在理論天體物理學和行星科學中取得的成就。他的最重要貢獻既深且廣，豐富多樣，令人仰慕，歎為觀止。它們包括：太陽系中的軌道共振效應、行星環和太陽系外行星；較差轉動放大和盤狀星系旋臂結構的關係；星際微波激射放大效應的產生和進行測定的機制；脈衝星的電動力學；在日震學和星際閃爍中出現的天體物理湍流的特徵；將木衛一（即伽利略發現的 Io 衛星）考慮為從木星發出的低頻射電爆源等。彼得．高里教授廣受敬仰，為當代天文學之翹楚，其工作影響深遠。事實上，他以高水準的研究，尖銳的洞察力和廣泛的成就見稱，已成為該領域中的最高楷模。
The past fifty years represent a golden age for astronomy. Exciting new discoveries occurred across a wide range of phenomena. Our intellectual horizons expanded correspondingly. At the edge of that expansion, often creating mighty explosions of his own, one invariably finds Peter Goldreich.
Goldreich’s career began auspiciously with his explanation, with Peale, of the role of resonances in the solar system. This understanding formed the basis for the later successful prediction that volcanoes would exist on Io. When the motion of Io was found to correlate with intense decametric radio emission from Jupiter, Goldreich and Lynden-Bell put forth an elegant explanation that relied on the presence of a million-ampere tube of electric current flowing between Io and Jupiter’s magnetosphere, a prediction that was later confirmed by direct satellite imaging of the hot spot in Jupiter’s atmosphere that is linked magnetically to Io.
