Maurice Goldhaber

Maurice Goldhaber
Born(1911-04-18)April 18, 1911
DiedMay 11, 2011(2011-05-11) (aged 100)
Alma materUniversity of Berlin
Cambridge University
Known forNeutrinos and negative helicity
AwardsTom 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
FieldsPhysicist
InstitutionsCavendish Laboratory
Doctoral advisorJames Chadwick
Doctoral studentsTheodore 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.

  1. ^ "Theodore Allen Welton". Physics Tree.