Gerson Goldhaber

Who is this?

Gerson Goldhaber (February 20, 1924 – July 19, 2010) was a German-born American particle physicist and astrophysicist. He was one of the discoverers of the J/ψ meson, which is the bound state of a charm quark and a charm anti-quark. Together with François Pierre, he led the analysis that first revealed actual charmed mesons. He worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with the Supernova Cosmology Project, and was a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley as well as a professor at Berkeley's graduate school in astrophysics.

Career

1. 1924
   Born
2. 1991
   Won Panofsky Prize
3. 2010
   Passed away
4. Member of National Academy of Sciences
5. Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
6. Member of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
7. Won Guggenheim Fellowship
8. Won Fellow of the American Physical Society

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Chemnitz
• •Citizenship: United States
• •Known as: astronomer, physicist, university teacher, astrophysicist
• •Spouse: Sulamith Goldhaber