Marvin Leonard Goldberger

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Marvin "Murph" Leonard Goldberger (born October 22, 1922 in Chicago , Illinois , † November 26, 2014 in La Jolla , California ) was an American theoretical physicist and President of the California Institute of Technology .

Life

Goldberger studied physics at the Carnegie Institute of Technology , where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1943. In 1948 he did his doctorate at the University of Chicago under Enrico Fermi on the scattering of high-energy neutrons on heavy nuclei. (He contributed his expertise in quantum mechanical scattering theory to a well-known textbook with Kenneth Watson in 1964). In 1948/49 he was at the Radiation Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley and 1949/50 researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , before becoming an assistant professor at the University of Chicago in 1950. In the 1950s he was one of the pioneers for the dispersion relation approach to elementary particle physics. In 1958 he and Sam Treiman introduced the Goldberger-Treiman relations between coupling and decay constants (both the strong and the weak interaction) and masses for the weak decay of the pion, which later led to the discovery of PCAC (partially conserved axial vector current) and chiral symmetry of the strong interaction. From 1957 to 1977 he was Professor of Physics at Princeton University . 1970 to 1976 he was head of the physics faculty and from 1977 to 1978 Joseph Henry Professor of Physics. From 1978 to 1987 he was President of Caltech in Pasadena and then until 1991 Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton . From 1991 to 1993 he was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles and from 1994 to 2007 Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of California, San Diego , where he was professor of physics from 2000.

He was also active in arms control initiatives, including from 1987 to 1993 as chairman of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the National Academy of Sciences . He was a member of the JASON Defense Advisory Group , an association of junior scientists from the post-Los Alamos generation, and served on the General Motors Board of Directors for twelve years .

In 1961 he received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics . He had been a member of the US National Academy of Sciences since 1963 , and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1965. Since 1980 he was a member of the American Philosophical Society .

literature

  • Goldberger, Kenneth M. Watson: Collision Theory. Wiley, New York 1964, Dover 2004, ISBN 0-486-43507-5
  • Goldberger: Introduction to the Theory and Application of Dispersion Relations. Hermann, 1961
  • Goldberger, Gell-Mann: Scattering of Low Energy Photons by Particles of Spin 1/2. In: Physical Review Review. Vol. 96, 1954, p. 1433
  • Goldberger: Use of Causality Conditions in Quantum Theory. In: Physical Review. Vol. 97, 1955, p. 508
  • Goldberger, Murray Gell-Mann , Walter Thirring . Use of Causality Conditions in Quantum Theory. In: Physical Review. Vol. 95, 1954, p. 1612
  • Goldberger, Treiman: Decay of the Pi Meson. In: Physical Review. Vol. 110, 1958, p. 1178,
  • Goldberger, Treiman: Conserved Currents in Fermi Interaction. In: Physical Review. Vol. 110, 1958, p. 1478
  • Goldberger, Treiman: A Soluble Model for Dispersion Theory. In: Physical Review. Vol. 113, 1959, p. 1663
  • Goldberger, Francesco Calogero, Sergei Kapitza (eds.): Verification: Monitoring Disarmament. Westview Press, Boulder / Colorado 1991
  • Goldberger: Research Doctorate Programs of the United States. National Research Council, 1995

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jeanne Rife: Marvin L. "Murph" Goldberger dies at 92. In: New Hampshire Voice. November 29, 2014, archived from the original on December 3, 2014 .;
  2. ^ Member History: Marvin L. Goldberger. American Philosophical Society, accessed August 24, 2018 (with a short biography).
personal data
SURNAME Goldberger, Marvin Leonard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goldberger, Murph Leonard (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theoretical physicist and President of the California Institute of Technology
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 2014
Place of death La Jolla , California