Martin Goldstein (physicist)
Martin Goldstein (born November 18, 1919 in New York City , † April 23, 2014 there ) was an American physicist who worked in the field of physical chemistry .
Life
Goldstein received the degree Ph.D. at Columbia University and subsequently worked in various university and industrial research institutions. From 1965 to 1987 he taught chemistry at the Belfer Graduate School of Science at Yeshiva University in New York. He has been researching the thermodynamic properties of amorphous materials since the 1950s . He was particularly interested in the properties of glasses and especially the transition from viscous liquids to the glass state . He published several seminal papers in the Journal of Chemical Physics in this area .
He and his wife wrote four popular science books. He was also the author of literary essays, for example on the work of Fyodor Dostoyevsky .
In 1970 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .
literature
- Gyan Johari, C. Austen Angell: Martin Goldstein (obituary) . In: Physics Today . tape 68 , no. 2 , 2015, p. 58-59 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Martin Goldstein: The Debate in "The Brothers Karamazov" . In: The Slavic and East European Journal . tape 14 , no. 3 , 1970, p. 326-340 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goldstein, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 18, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 23, 2014 |
| Place of death | New York City |