Gerson Goldhaber
- Born: February 20, 1924 (Chemnitz, Germany)
- Died: July 19, 2010 (Berkeley, California)
Education
- 1947: MSc, Hebrew University
- 1950: PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Major Positions
- 1950–1953: Columbia University, Instructor
- 1953–1964: University of California, Berkeley, Acting Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics
- 1964–2010: University of California, Berkeley, Professor of Physics in the Graduate School
Other Positions
- 1957–1958: University of California, Berkeley, Assistant Research Professor, Miller Institute for Basic Research
- 1960–1961: European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Ford Foundation Fellow
- 1962–2010: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Group Leader
- 1972–1973: European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Guggenheim Fellow
- 1975–1976: University of California, Berkeley, Assistant Research Professor, Miller Institute for Basic Research
- 1976–1977: Harvard University, Morris Loeb Lecturer
Selected Awards and Honors
- 1977: National Academy of Sciences, Member
- 1991: American Physical Society, W. K. H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics
Archival Resources
Scientist's Records, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Archives and Records Office, Berkeley, California
Papers, University of California at Berkeley, Bancroft Library, Berkeley, California
Published Resources
George H. Trilling, "Gerson Goldhaber: 1924-2010", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
Gerson Goldhaber, "Early Work at the Bevatron: A Personal Account," in Pions to Quarks: Particle Physics in the 1950s, ed. Laurie M. Brown, Max Dresden, and Lillian Hoddeson (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press: 1989), 260-272
Gerson Goldhaber, "From the Psi to Chamed Mesons: Three Years with the SLAC-LBL Detector at SPEAR," in The Rise of the Standard Model: Particle Physics in the 1960s and 1970s, ed. Lillian Hoddeson, Laurie Brown, Michael Riordan, and Max Dresden (New York: Cambridge University Press: 1997), 57-78
Ursula Pavlish, "Gerson Goldhaber: A Life in Science," Physics in Perspective 13 (2011): 189-214
