1 | Name: | Dr. Maurice Goldhaber | |
Institution: | Brookhaven National Laboratory | ||
Year Elected: | 1972 | ||
Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | ||
Subdivision: | 106. Physics | ||
Residency: | Resident | ||
Living? : | Deceased | ||
Birth Date: | 1911 | ||
Death Date: | May 11, 2011 | ||
Nuclear physicist Maurice Goldhaber was born in Austria in 1911. He earned his Ph.D. at Cambridge in 1936 and, after two years as a fellow at Magdalene College, he came to the United States as a member of the faculty of the University of Illinois. Dr. Goldhaber became a naturalized citizen in 1944, and in 1950 he joined the faculty of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, which he would go on to direct from 1961-73. Dr. Goldhaber's numerous experimental and theoretical contributions to nuclear physics include the discovery of deuteron splitting with gamma rays, evidence of the helicity of the neutrino, and of nuclear vibrations of protons against neutrons. The recipient of awards including the National Medal of Science (1985), the Wolf Prize (1991), the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize (1992) and the Fermi Award (1998), Dr. Goldhaber was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Having held the position of Associated Universities, Inc. Distinguished Scientist from 1973-85, he became BSA Distinguished Scientist Emeritus there in 1985, but he continued to work at Brookhaven until 2008. He died May 11, 2011, at the age of 100 at his home in East Setauket, New York. |