Jeffrey Goldstone | |
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| Born | 3 September 1933 Manchester, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Known for | Goldstone boson Linked-cluster theorem Effective action |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Quantum mechanics |
| Institutions | MIT Cambridge |
| Doctoral advisor | Hans Bethe |
Jeffrey Goldstone (born 3 September 1933) is a British theoretical physicist and an emeritus physics faculty member at the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics.
He worked at the University of Cambridge until 1977. He is noted for the discovery of the Nambu–Goldstone boson. He is currently working on quantum computation.