- Sulamith Goldhaber
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birth_place =Vienna ,Austria cite web|url= http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/articles/goldhaber/tribute.html|title= Sulamith Goldhaber (1923-1965)|accessdate= 2008-04-26|last= Alvarez|first= Luis|authorlink= Luis Alvarez|year= 1968|month= September|publisher= University of California, Los Angeles]
death_date = dda|1965|12|11|1923|11|4
death_place = Madras,India Citation | last =Ogilvie | first =Marilyn Bailey | last2 =Harvey | first2 =Joy Dorothy | year =2000 | contribution = Goldhaber, Sulamath | contribution-url = http://books.google.com/books?id=QmfyK0QtsRAC&pg=PA514&vq=Sulamith&source=gbs_search_s&sig=gBnz2_aUtqK3d8zCGVQSKVae1lc | title =The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century | edition = First | publication-place =New York | publisher =Taylor & Francis | pages = 514 | isbn =0415920396 | oclc = 40776839 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=QmfyK0QtsRAC]
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alma_mater = M.ScHebrew University of Jerusalem in 1947,
PhD.University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1951
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footnotes =Sulamith Goldhaber (
November 4 ,1923 –December 11 ,1965 ) was a high-energy physicist and molecular spectroscopist. Goldhaber was a world expert on the interactions of K+ mesons withnucleons and made numerous discoveries relating to it.Biography
Goldhaber was born
November 4 ,1923 inVienna ,Austria . Goldhaber grew up inPalestine after her family emigrated out of Austria. She attendedHebrew University of Jerusalem where she met her future husband,Gerson Goldhaber . Goldhaber graduated with an M.Sc in 1947, and was married to Gerson the same year. The Goldhabers moved to the United States to pursue doctorates atUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison which they were awarded in 1951.Goldhaber became a
naturalized citizen of the United States in 1953. The Goldhabers moved to Berkeley,California in 1953 when Gerson was given a job as anassistant professor at the University of California. While Goldhaber had previously worked inphysical chemistry , she was able to transition tohigh energy physics and form a collaboration with her husband working onnuclear emulsion . The Goldhabers hoped to use their nuclear emulsion technique with the newly openedBevatron — at the time the highest energy accelerator in operation — and it was through their methods that they observed some of the earliest interactions between K- mesons andprotons . Using the Bevatron and the nuclear emulsion technique Goldhaber was the first to observe mass splitting in charged Ehyperon s as well as the first nuclear interactions of theantiproton .In the 1960s the Goldhabers realized that they should begin using the
bubble chamber to continue their studies instead of nuclear emulsion so they formed the "Goldhaber-Trilling Group" withGeorge Trilling . Goldhaber quickly became a renowned expert in hydrogen bubble chamber physics, accruing a lengthy list of invited papers and conference talks. The Goldhabers were the first to measure the spin of the K* meson, the first to study the simultaneous production of pairs of resonant states, and invented thetriangle diagram to aid in their research.Goldhaber was in high demand as a speaker at scientific conferences due to her mastery of her field, and her ability to express herself beautifully. Goldhaber gave a seminal talk at the 1965 Rochester Conference that marked the transition from
cosmic ray based experiments toparticle accelerator base experiments in the study of strange particles. In the fall of 1965 the Goldhabers took asabbatical to travel around the world visiting high energy laboratories and giving lectures. They first stopped atOxford for the biennial European conference on high energy physics, and thenCERN so that Goldhaber could discussing methods of making automatic film measurements with Berkeley'sHough-Powell device . The Goldhabers then traveled toAnkara to lecture, and spent a month at theWeizmann Institute in preparation for the lectures Sulamith was to give inMadras ,India .In Madras Goldhaber suffered a
stroke .Exploratory surgery revealed a growingbrain tumor . She died without having regained consciousness onDecember 11 ,1965 .Goldhaber had one son with her husband named Amos.cite web|url=http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Goldhaber,_Sulamith@812345678.html|title= Sulamith Goldhaber|accessdate= 2008-04-28|publisher= University of California, Los Angeles] She was remembered by her friends and colleagues as "a distinguished scientist, an remarkable homemaker and hostess, and a devoted wife and mother".
Awards and honors
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Sigma Xi member
* 1964-65Guggenheim Fellowship cite web|url= http://www.gf.org/gfellow.html|title= Fellows whose last names begin with G
accessdate= 2008-04-28|publisher= John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|quote= Sulamith Goldhaber, "Deceased". Particle Physics: 1964.]
* 1960-61 Ford Foundation FellowExternal links
* Sulamith Goldhaber in [http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Goldhaber,_Sulamith@812345678.html CWP at UCLA]
References
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