# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerson-goldhaber
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:58:24.013Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerson-goldhaber"
name: "Gerson Goldhaber"
slug: "gerson-goldhaber"
description: "Gerson Goldhaber was a German-born American particle physicist and astrophysicist. He was one of the discoverers of the J/ψ meson, which is the bound state of a charm quark and a charm anti-quark. Together with François Pierre, he led the analysis that first revealed actual charmed mesons. He worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with the Supernova Cosmology Project, and was a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley as well as a professor at Berkeley's graduate school in astrophysics."
tagline: "Particle Physicist and astrophysicist (1924-2010)"
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country:
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birthDate: "1924-02-20"
deathDate: "2010-07-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump