Herbert Goldstein

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Herbert Goldstein (born June 26, 1922 in New York ; † January 12, 2005 there ) was an American physicist .

Life

Goldstein graduated from City College of New York (bachelor's degree in 1940) and received his doctorate in 1943 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Since 1961 he was Professor of Nuclear Physics and Technology at Columbia University . He was very successful as a teacher there and received the University's Teaching Award in 1976 and became its first Thomas Alva Edison Professor in 1984. He was a scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Brookhaven National Laboratory , among others .

Goldstein is best known as the author of the standard textbook Classical Mechanics , which has served as a reference for students worldwide since it was first published in 1950 and has been translated into nine languages. In addition, he was a recognized expert in questions of shielding against ionizing radiation in nuclear reactors and first chairman (1961/62) of the Shielding Division of the American Nuclear Society (ANS), whose Distinguished Service Award he received in 1977.

He was a founding member and also President of the Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists , an organization that researches the relationship between science and the Jewish Orthodox Halacha .

Herbert Goldstein died a professor emeritus at Columbia University . He was buried in Israel. He was married and had three children.

He was a Fellow of the American Physical Society , the New York Academy of Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

Awards

Works

  • Herbert Goldstein, Charles P. Poole and John L. Safko: Classical Mechanics (translation: Michael Baer). - 3rd, completely revised. and exp. Aufl - Weinheim: Wiley-VCH, 2006. (Textbook Physics), ISBN 3-527-40589-5 .
  • Herbert Goldstein, Charles Poole, John Safko: Classical mechanics - 3rd ed. - San Francisco, Calif .: Addison-Wesley, 2002, ISBN 0-201-65702-3 .
  • Herbert Goldstein. Fundamental aspects of reactor shielding - Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, cop. 1959. (Addison-Wesley series in nuclear science and engineering)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See z. B. w: en: Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists
personal data
SURNAME Goldstein, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH new York
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 2005
Place of death new York