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Gerson Goldhaber

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Particle Physicist and astrophysicist (1924-2010)

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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.

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1991Panofsky Prize
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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.

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Lived 1924 to 2010 · aged 86
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