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Marvin Goldberger

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Marvin Goldberger · Science & Medicine

What

Physicist; dispersion relations in particle theory

When

1922, Chicago, Illinois, United States — 2014, La Jolla, California, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Marvin Goldberger is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; dispersion relations in particle theory

How & why

Goldberger was an American theoretical physicist who developed dispersion relations in particle physics and later served as president of Caltech and director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He was Jewish, born in Chicago, and worked on the Manhattan Project as a young scientist.

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Physicist; dispersion relations in particle theory

1922

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics