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Maurice Goldhaber | |
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Born | |
Died | May 11, 2011 | (aged 100)
Alma mater | University of Berlin Cambridge University |
Known for | Neutrinos and negative helicity |
Awards | Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics (1971) National Medal of Science (1983) Wolf Prize in Physics (1991) J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize (1982) Fermi Award (1998) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physicist |
Institutions | Cavendish Laboratory |
Doctoral advisor | James Chadwick |
Doctoral students | Theodore A. Welton[1] |
Maurice Goldhaber (April 18, 1911 – May 11, 2011) was an American physicist, who in 1957 (with Lee Grodzins and Andrew Sunyar) established that neutrinos have negative helicity.