Sulamith Goldhaber

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Sulamith Goldhaber (born November 4, 1923 in Vienna , † December 11, 1965 in Madras , India ) was an Austrian-American nuclear physicist.

life and work

Goldhaber grew up in Palestine after her family emigrated from Austria . She studied chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , where she received a Master of Science degree in 1947 and became a research assistant. In the same year she married the German-born physicist Gerson Goldhaber , with whom she moved to the USA. In 1951 she received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison . With her husband and son Amos Nathaniel Goldhaber , she moved to Columbia University in New York where she was employed at the Nevis Laboratory as an assistant to Jack Steinberger . In 1953 the family was naturalized in the United States and moved to Berkeley , California. From 1954 to 1965 she did research in physics at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in collaboration with her husband. They worked with the Bevatron and were the first to observe the mass splitting in charged E hyperons and the first nuclear interactions of the antiproton . In the 1960s, they used the bubble chamber for their studies and became renowned experts giving many invited conference lectures. In 1965 she gave a seminal lecture at the Rochester Conference that marked the transition from experiments based on cosmic rays to experiments based on particle accelerators to study foreign particles. To visit high-energy laboratories and give lectures, they first traveled to Oxford as part of a sabbatical year in 1965 to take part in the biennial European conference on high-energy physics, then to CERN, then to Ankara to give lectures, and spent a month at the Weizmann- Institute. Goldhaber died in Madras of a stroke caused by a brain tumor.

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • with EL Iloff, WW Chupp, G. Goldhaber, JE Lannuttii, A. Pevsner and D. Ritson: Mean Lifetime of Positive K Mesons. In: Phys. Rev. Volume 99, 1955, p. 1617.
  • with W. Alvarez: The Lifetime of the tau-Meson. In: Nuovo Cimento (Series 10). Volume 2, 1955, p. 344.
  • with WW Chupp, G. Goldhaber, WR Johnson and JE Lannutti: K-meson Mass from a K-hydrogen Scattering Event. In: Phys. Rev. Volume 99, 1955, p. 1042.
  • with W. Chinowsky, G. Goldhaber, W. Lee and T. O'Halloran: On the Spin of the K * Resonance. In: Phys. Rev. Lett. Volume 9, 1962, p. 330.
  • with FH Webb, EL Iloff, FH Featherston, WW Chupp and G. Goldhaber: Properties of Negative K-mesons. In: Nuovo Cimento. Volume 8, 1958, p. 899.
  • with G. Goldhaber, WB Fowler, T. Hoang, TE Kalogeropoulos and WM Powell: Pion-Pion Correlations in Antiproton Annihilation Events. In: Phys. Rev. Lett. Volume 3, 1959, p. 181.

literature

  • Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 1: A-H. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , p. 1047. (digitized version )
  • J. Harvey, M. Ogilvie: The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the Mid-Twentieth Century. Routledge, New York / London 2000, ISBN 0-203-80145-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Goldhaber, Sulamith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Löw, Sulamith (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American nuclear physicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1965
Place of death Madras