Gerson Goldhaber

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Gerson Goldhaber (born February 20, 1924 in Chemnitz , † July 19, 2010 in Berkeley , California ) was an American experimental particle physicist and astrophysicist.

Goldhaber studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem ( Master's degree in 1947) and at the University of Wisconsin – Madison , where he received his doctorate in 1950 . He then was an instructor at Columbia University in New York until 1953 . From 1953 he was in Berkeley , where he was research professor at the Miller Institute for Basic Research in 1957/59 (as well as 1975/76, 1984/85) .

In 1960/61 he was a Fellow of the Ford Foundation at CERN in Geneva and from 1962 at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , where he led a group in experimental particle physics with George Trilling until 1991. In 1972/73 he was a Guggenheim Fellow at the ISR storage ring at CERN. At the SLAC in the 1960s, he and others built the SLAC-LBL Solenoidal Magnetic Detector. In the mid-1970s, he discovered D mesons , i.e. the lightest mesons with a charm quark , at the Spear storage ring in Stanford, where Burton Richter previously discovered the charm quark, which was confirmed by it.

Since 1991 he has been Professor Emeritus at Berkeley. Since 1990 he has been working with Saul Perlmutter on distance determination with distant supernovae , a project that led to the discovery of the accelerated expansion of the universe and the determination of the cosmological constant . He was most recently involved in the Supernova Cosmology Project at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory .

In 1977 he was named California Scientist of the Year. In 1976/77 he was a Loeb lecturer at Harvard . In 1991 he received the Panofsky Prize . In 1977 he became a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences , and in 1991 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He was also a member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences . He was a Fellow of the American Physical Society and was an honorary doctorate from Stockholm University (1986).

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  1. ^ A b Goldhaber, Gerson - Author profile . INSPIRE-HEP . Retrieved July 18, 2019.
  2. ↑ They discovered the supernova that was furthest away so far in 1998, 9 billion light years apart
personal data
SURNAME Goldhaber, Gerson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 2010
Place of death Berkeley