Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber
✓ Source-basedfallingNuclear physicist (1911-1998)
Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber was a German-born Jewish-American nuclear physicist. She earned her PhD from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and though her family suffered during The Holocaust, Gertrude was able to escape to London and later to the United States.
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Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber was a German-born Jewish-American nuclear physicist. She earned her PhD from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and though her family suffered during The Holocaust, Gertrude was able to escape to London and later to the United States. She showed that uranium undergoing spontaneous fission emits neutrons. Her research during World War II was classified, and not published until 1946. She and her husband, Maurice Goldhaber, spent most of their post-war careers at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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