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Maurice Goldhaber

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American physicist (1911-2011)

United StatesScientistsLived 1911 to 2011 · aged 100
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Maurice Goldhaber was an American physicist and director of Brookhaven National Laboratory. He is known for the discovery that deuteron is made of a neutron and a proton, for first measuring the mass of the neutron and for th Goldhaber experiment that first determined that neutrinos have negative helicity.

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Maurice Goldhaber (left) and Ernest Courant in 2000 in front of the C-shaped Cosmotron magnet that sits outside Building 911, home to Brookhaven Lab's Collider-Accelerator Department.Maurice Goldhaber (left) and Ernest Courant in 2000 in front of the C-shaped Cosmotron magnet that sits outside Building 911, home to Brookhaven Lab's Collider-Accelerator Department.

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1998Enrico Fermi Award
1991Wolf Prize in Physics
1983National Medal of Science
1982J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize
1971Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics
Fellow of the American Physical Society

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Connected to Maurice 6

Arthur B. McDonaldAlso won Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear PhysicsRobert SerberAlso won J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial PrizeHarold BrownAlso won Enrico Fermi AwardCharles H. BennettAlso won Wolf Prize in PhysicsEdwin Ernest SalpeterAlso won J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial PrizeRobert R. WilsonAlso won Enrico Fermi Award

About this person

Country
United States
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1911 to 2011 · aged 100
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