Herbert Goldstein
Herbert Goldstein ( born June 26, 1922 in New York; † January 12, 2005 ) was an American physicist.
Life
Goldstein studied at the City College of New York ( BA 1940) and received his doctorate in 1943 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since 1961 he was a professor of nuclear physics and nuclear engineering at Columbia University. He was there as a teacher very successful and received the 1976 Teaching Award of the University and in 1984 the first of Thomas Alva Edison Professor. He had worked as a scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Goldstein was known primarily as the author of the standard textbook Classical Mechanics, the 1950 students worldwide serves as a reference since the first edition and has been translated into nine languages. In addition, he was a recognized expert in matters of shielding against radioactive radiation in nuclear reactors and first chairman (1961 /62) of Shielding Division of the American Nuclear Society (ANS ), the Distinguished Service Award he received in 1977.
He was a founding member and president of the Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists, an organization dedicated to exploring the relationship between science and the Orthodox Jewish Halacha.
Herbert Goldstein died as a professor emeritus at Columbia University. He was buried in Israel. He was married and had three children.
He was a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the New York Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Awards
Works
- Herbert Goldstein, Charles P. Poole and John L. Safko: Classical Mechanics (Translation: Michael Baer). - Third, completely revised. and ext. Divide - Weinheim: . Wiley- VCH, 2006 ( textbook physics), ISBN 3-527-40589-5.
- Herbert Goldstein, Charles Poole, John Safko: Classical mechanics - 3rd ed - San Francisco, Calif.: Addison -Wesley, 2002, ISBN 0-201-65702-3. .
- Herbert Goldstein. Fundamental aspects of reactor shielding - Reading, Massachusetts: Addison -Wesley, cop. In 1959. (Addison -Wesley series in nuclear science and engineering)