Gerson Goldhaber | |
|---|---|
 Gerson Goldhaber at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory | |
| Born | February 20, 1924[1][2][3] |
| Died | July 19, 2010 (aged 86)[2][3] |
| Nationality | Germany[1][2][3] |
| Citizenship | United States[2] |
| Alma mater | M.Sc Hebrew University of Jerusalem[1][2][3] Ph.D. University of Wisconsin–Madison[1][2][3] |
| Known for | Charm Meson Discovery,[1][2][3] Dark Energy Discovery[1][2][3] |
| Spouse(s) | Sulamith Goldhaber Judith Margoshes |
| Awards | Panofsky Prize[1][2][3] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Particle Physics, Cosmology[1][2][3] |
| Institutions | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory[1][2][3] University of California, Berkeley[1][2] |
| Academic advisors | M.Sc Thesis Advisor Ernst Alexander[1] |
Gerson Goldhaber (February 20, 1924 – July 19, 2010) was a German-born American particle physicist and astrophysicist. He was one of the discoverers of the J/ψ meson which confirmed the existence of the charm quark.[4] He worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with the Supernova Cosmology Project,[1] and was a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley as well as a professor at Berkeley's graduate school in astrophysics.[5]
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- ^ "1976 Nobel Prize in Physics". Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Archived from the original on November 14, 2011. Retrieved February 22, 2007.
- ^ "Gerson Goldhaber". Faculty Listing. Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley. Archived from the original on July 6, 2007. Retrieved March 4, 2007.