10 Facts About Maurice Goldhaber

Maurice Goldhaber was an American physicist, who in 1957 established that neutrinos have negative helicity.

Maurice Goldhaber was born on April 18,1911, in Lemberg, Austria, now called Lviv, Ukraine to a Jewish family.

Maurice Goldhaber's grandson, David Goldhaber-Gordon is a Physics Professor at Stanford University.

Maurice Goldhaber moved to the University of Illinois in 1938.

Maurice Goldhaber speculated that in what became known as the Goldhaber-Christie model, the so-called strange particles were composites of just 3 basic particles.

Maurice Goldhaber was Director of Brookhaven National Laboratory from 1961 to 1973.

Maurice Goldhaber was an elected member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.

Maurice Goldhaber's brother Gerson Goldhaber was a professor of physics at the University of California Berkeley; his son Alfred Scharff Goldhaber is a professor of physics at SUNY Stony Brook; his grandson David Goldhaber-Gordon is a professor of physics at Stanford.

Maurice Goldhaber died May 11,2011, at his home in East Setauket, New York at 100.

In 2001, Brookhaven National Laboratory created the Gertrude and Maurice Goldhaber Distinguished Fellowships in his honor.