Gerson Goldhaber

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name = Gerson Goldhaber


caption = Gerson Goldhaber
birth_date = birth date and age|1924|2|20
birth_place = Chemnitz, Germany
citizenship =
field = Particle Physics and Astrophysics
work_institution = Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
alma_mater = M.Sc Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
known_for = Charm Meson Discovery, Dark Energy Discovery
prizes = Panofsky Prize

Gerson Goldhaber (born February 20, 1924)cite web| url = http://inpa.lbl.gov/scp/Gersonfest/bio_files%20Folder/bio.htm| title = Goldhaber Biography| accessdate = 2007-02-22| publisher = LBL Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics] is an American particle physicist and astrophysicist. He is one of the discoverers of the D meson which confirmed the existence of the charm quark.cite web| url = http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/nobel/1976nobel.html| title = 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics| accessdate = 2007-02-22
publisher = Stanford Linear Accelerator Center] He currently works at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with the Supernova Cosmology Project, and is a professor of physics emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley as well as a professor of Berkeley's graduate school in astrophysics.cite web| url = http://www.physics.berkeley.edu/people/directory.php?id=6| title = Gerson Goldhaber| accessdate = 2007-03-04| work = Faculty Listing| publisher = Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley]

Honors and awards

*Fellow of the American Physical Society
*1991 - Panofsky Prize of the American Physical Society in recognition of his discovery of charmed mesonscite web| url = http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?name=Gerson%20Goldhaber%20and%20Francois%20Pierre| title = 1991 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics Recipient| accessdate = 2007-02-22| publisher = American Physical Society]
*1982 - Elected as a foreign member of the Swedish Royal Academy
*1977 - California Scientist of the Year award, for his work on charmed mesons
*1976-77 - Morris Loeb Lecturer in Physics, Harvard University
*1977 - Elected member of the National Academy of Sciences
*1972-73 - Guggenheim Fellow at CERN

References

See also

* Sulamith Goldhaber

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NAME=Goldhaber, Gerson
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=Particle Physicist and astrophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH=February 20, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH=Chemnitz, Germany
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