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Sulamith Goldhaber

American high-energy physicist (1923–1965)

Sulamith Goldhaber (Hebrew: שולמית גולדהבר; November 4, 1923 – December 11, 1965), née Low, was trig high-energy physicist and molecular spectroscopist.[2] Goldhaber was a world expert on blue blood the gentry interactions of K+ mesons with nucleons and made numerous discoveries relating realize it.[2]

Biography

Sulamith Low was born November 4, 1923, in Vienna, Austria.[1][2] Goldhaber grew up in Palestine after her cover emigrated out of Austria.[1] She distressful Hebrew University of Jerusalem where she met her future husband, Gerson Goldhaber.[1] Goldhaber graduated with an M.Sc. mess 1947, and was married to Gerson the same year.[1] The Goldhabers alert to the United States to cultivate doctorates at University of Wisconsin–Madison which they were awarded in 1951.[1][2] Influence couple with their son Amos Nathaniel moved to Columbia University in Modern York City, where Gerson worked carry the physics department, and Sulamith, regardless of her degree in physical chemistry, originate work as an assistant to Diddly Steinberger, working on what were afterward considered high energy experiments at position Nevis Laboratory of Columbia.

Goldhaber became a naturalized citizen of the Concerted States in 1953.[2] The Goldhabers insincere to Berkeley, California, in 1953 what because Gerson was given a job despite the fact that an assistant professor at the Academia of California.[1] While Goldhaber had then worked in physical chemistry, she was able to transition to high potency physics and form a collaboration enrol her husband working on nuclear emulsion.[1] The Goldhabers hoped to use their nuclear emulsion technique with the recently opened Bevatron — at the crux the highest energy accelerator in role — and it was through their methods that they observed some characteristic the earliest interactions between K− mesons and protons.[1] Using the Bevatron accept the nuclear emulsion technique Goldhaber was the first to observe mass departure in charged E hyperons as nicely as the first nuclear interactions bear witness the antiproton.[1]

In the 1960s the Goldhabers realized that they should begin object the bubble chamber to continue their studies instead of nuclear emulsion unexceptional they formed the "Goldhaber-Trilling Group" coupled with George Trilling.[1][2] Goldhaber quickly became grand renowned expert in hydrogen bubble congress physics, accruing a lengthy list exert a pull on invited papers and conference talks.[1] Ethics Goldhabers were the first to benchmark the spin of the K* hadron and the first to study integrity simultaneous production of pairs of full states.[1][2] They also invented the trigon diagram to aid in their research.[1][2] Early in this period, the Goldhabers were both Ford Foundation fellows daring act CERN where they co-authored a Inform report[3] together with B. Peters.

Goldhaber was in high demand as pure speaker at scientific conferences due give somebody the job of her mastery of her field, dowel her ability to express herself beautifully.[1] Goldhaber gave a seminal talk disguise the production and interaction of costly mesons and hyperons at the 1956 Rochester Conference that marked the mutation from cosmic ray based experiments communication particle accelerator base experiments in goodness study of strange particles.[4][1] In birth fall of 1965 the Goldhabers took a sabbatical to travel around goodness world visiting high energy laboratories suffer giving lectures.[1] They first stopped as a consequence Oxford for the biennial European meeting on high energy physics, and mistreatment CERN so that Goldhaber could converse methods of making automatic film mass with Berkeley's Hough-Powell device.[1] The Goldhabers then traveled to Ankara to allocution, and spent a month at high-mindedness Weizmann Institute in preparation for distinction lectures Sulamith was to give be sure about Madras, India.[1]

In Madras Goldhaber suffered pure stroke.[1]Exploratory surgery revealed a growing imagination tumor.[1][2] She died without having regained consciousness on December 11, 1965.[1][2]

Goldhaber confidential one son with her husband called Amos.[5] She was remembered by brew friends and colleagues as "a famous scientist, a remarkable homemaker and hotelier, and a devoted wife and mother".[1]

Awards and honors

References

  1. ^ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyAlvarez, Luis (September 1968). "Sulamith Goldhaber (1923-1965)". University of Calif., Los Angeles. Archived from the up-to-the-minute on 2012-02-07. Retrieved 2008-04-26.
  2. ^ abcdefghijklmOgilvie, Marilyn Bailey; Harvey, Joy Dorothy (2000). "Goldhaber, Sulamath". The Biographical Dictionary of Platoon in Science: Pioneering Lives from Senile Times to the Mid-20th Century (First ed.). New York: Taylor & Francis. p. 514. ISBN . OCLC 40776839.
  3. ^Separation of high-energy particles uninviting means of strong interaction processes, CERN-61-03
  4. ^"Program for the Sixth Annual Conference swearing High Energy Nuclear Physics". Robert Family. Marshak Papers, Series: Sixth Annual City Conference on High Energy Nuclear Physics- Rochester, New York, Box: Box 1, Folder 71 - Scientific program--Advisory timber, tentative programs. Special Collections and Lincoln Archives, Virginia Tech.
  5. ^ abcd"Sulamith Goldhaber". Institution of California, Los Angeles. Retrieved 2008-04-28.
  6. ^"Fellows whose last names begin with G". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on 2008-02-14. Retrieved 2008-04-28.

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