Gerson Goldhaber

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1924 – 2010

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Who was Gerson Goldhaber?

Gerson Goldhaber 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. He worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with the Supernova Cosmology Project, and was a professor of physics emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley as well as a professor at Berkeley's graduate school in astrophysics.

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Born
Feb 20, 1924
Chemnitz
Nationality
  • United States of America
  • Germany
Education
  • Master's Degree, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Physics
    (1942 - 1947)
  • PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Physics
    ( - 1950)
Employment
  • University of California, Berkeley
Lived in
  • Berkley
    (1953 - 2010/07/19)
Died
Jul 19, 2010
Berkeley

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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