Marvin Leonard Goldberger

Marvin " Murph " Leonard Goldberger ( born October 22, 1922 in Chicago) is an American theoretical physicist.

Life and work

Goldberger studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology ( Bachelor's degree 1943) and at the University of Chicago, where he received his doctorate in 1948 with Enrico Fermi on the scattering of high-energy neutrons to heavy nuclei. His expertise in the quantum mechanical scattering theory he brought in 1964 in a well-known textbook with Kenneth Watson one. 1948/49, he was at the Radiation Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley, and 1949/50, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before he became in 1950 Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. In the 1950s, he was one of the pioneers of the theory of dispersion - access to elementary particle physics. In 1958 he led so with Sam Treiman the Goldberger - Treiman relations between coupling and decay constants ( both the strong and the weak interaction ) and masses for the weak decay of the pion, which later the discovery of PCAC (partially conserved axial vector current) and chiral symmetry of the strong interaction contributing. From 1957 to 1977 he was professor of physics at Princeton University. 1970-1976 he was there Board of physics faculty and 1977-1978 Joseph Henry Professor of Physics. 1978 to 1987 he was president of Caltech in Pasadena and then to 1991, director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. 1991-1993, he was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, 1994-2007 Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of California, San Diego, where he was professor of physics from 2000.

In addition, he was active in the arms control initiatives, including 1987-1993. Than the board of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the National Academy of Sciences He was a member of the JASON Defense Advisory Group, an association of younger scholars of the post- Los Alamos generation, and was twelve years on the board of General Motors.

In 1961 he received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States since 1963.