Jeffrey Goldstone

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Jeffrey Goldstone (born September 3, 1933 in Manchester , England ) is a British physicist who has lived in the USA since 1977 .

life and work

Jeffrey Goldstone was born to Hyman and Sophia Goldstone. After the Grammar School in Manchester, he attended Trinity College in Cambridge from 1951 , where he made his bachelor's degree in 1954 and his master's degree in 1956 . He received his doctorate in 1958 under the supervision of Hans Bethe . From 1961 to 1976 he was a lecturer and from 1976 to 1977 reader for mathematical physics . During this time he was also visiting scholar at various universities and research institutes, including Copenhagen , CERN , Harvard University , Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Santa Barbara , SLAC , the École normal supérieure and Rome . In 1977 he left England and became a professor at MIT in Cambridge (Massachusetts) . From 1983 until his retirement in 2004 he was Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and from 1983 to 1989 he was also director of the Center for Theoretical Physics.

In a work from 1961 Goldstone showed that massless bosons occur when a global symmetry is broken spontaneously (→ Goldstone theorem ). With Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg he dealt with symmetry breaking and with Frank Wilczek he worked on solitons . He later devoted himself to string theory and algorithms for quantum computers .

Goldstone has been married since 1980 and has one son.

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  1. Jeffrey Goldstone ( English ) Jewish Lives Project. Retrieved August 1, 2019.
  2. ^ Goldstone, Jeffrey - Author profile . INSPIRE-HEP . Retrieved August 1, 2019.
  3. ^ Field Theories with Superconductor Solutions. In: Nuovo Cimento . Volume 19, 1961, pp. 154-164
  4. with Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg: Broken Symmetries . In: Physical Review . Volume 127, 1962, pp. 965-970
  5. with Frank Wilczek: Fractional Quantum Numbers on Solitons. In: Physical Review Letters . Volume 47, 1981, pp. 986-989
  6. with P. Goddard, C. Rebbic and CB Thorne: Quantum dynamics of a massless relativistic string . In: Nuclear Physics B . Volume 56, pp. 109-135

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