Maurice Goldhaber
Maurice Goldhaber · Science & Medicine
Physicist; showed the neutron is a distinct particle, measured neutrino helicity
1911, Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (now Lviv, Ukraine) — 2011, East Setauket, New York, United States
United Kingdom · United States
Maurice Goldhaber is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; showed the neutron is a distinct particle, measured neutrino helicity
Goldhaber, a Jewish physicist born in what is now Lviv, showed that the neutron is a distinct particle and, in a landmark 1958 experiment, measured the helicity of the neutrino. He fled Nazi Europe and built his career in Britain and the United States, later directing Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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Physicist; showed the neutron is a distinct particle, measured neutrino helicity
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