Gerson Goldhaber
Gerson Goldhaber · Science & Medicine
Physicist; particle physics and supernova cosmology
1924, Chemnitz, Germany — 2010, Berkeley, California, United States
Germany · United States
Gerson Goldhaber is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; particle physics and supernova cosmology
Gerson Goldhaber was a German-born American particle physicist and astrophysicist at Berkeley who helped discover the J/psi particle and antiproton, and was a founding member of the Supernova Cosmology Project that revealed the accelerating expansion of the universe. His family, being Jewish, fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s. His breadth across particle physics and cosmology was exceptional.
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Physicist; particle physics and supernova cosmology
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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