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Gerson Goldhaber dies at 86; particle physicist discovered ‘dark energy’
Gerson Goldhaber, a UC Berkeley physicist who played a key role in identifying some of the fundamental particles of nature, then switched careers and helped show that the universe is expanding rather than contracting, died of natural causes at his home in Berkeley on July He was
Goldhaber “was a great physicist and a wonderful human being,” said George Trilling, a professor emeritus at UC Berkeley who worked with him. “The number of observations that he was responsible for was remarkable.”
He “had an unerring sense of where great discoveries were to be made, from the antiproton to the psi and charm particles, and finally to dark energy,” longtime colleague Robert Cahn of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory said in a statement. He had “a special talent for turning abstractions into something for which he could have an intuitive sense,” said Cahn, who co-wrote with Goldhaber “The Experimental Foundati
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Women in physics
This article discusses women who have made an important contribution to the field of physics.
International physics awards
[edit]Nobel laureates
[edit]Five women have won the Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded annually since by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.[1] These are:[2]
Marie Curie was the first woman to be nominated in and to receive the prize in and shared 1/2 of the prize with her husband Pierre Curie for their joint work on radioactivity, discovered by Henri Becquerel who got the other half of the prize. Marie Curie was the first woman to also receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in , making her the first person to win two Nobel prizes and, as of , the only person to be awarded two Nobel prizes in two different scientific categories.[8]
Maria Goeppert Mayer became the second woman to win the prize in , for the theoretical development of the nuclear shell model, a half of the prize shared with J. Hans D. Jense
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Vera Kistiakowsky&#;s Interview
Cindy Kelly: inom am Cindy Kelly, Atomic Heritage Foundation, and it is Thursday July 17, I am in the lovely home Vera Kistiakowsky, and the first question I have for Vera is to tell me your name and spell it.
Vera Kistiakowsky: It’s Vera Kistiakowsky. The last name is K-I-S-T-I-A-K-O-W-S-K-Y, and the reason that the spelling doesn’t match the pronunciation that inom gave it is because my father, after fighting against the Bolsheviks, ended up in Berlin. There his name was spelled for the first time in the alphabet that we use, and in Germany the Russian “theh” or “th” sound gets a W. So inom now have name that phonetically would be just Kistiakowsky, but that’s not the original production.
Kelly: Great. Well we’re here to find out about you. Maybe you can tell us when you were born and where and, of course, about your parents.
Kistiakowsky: inom was born in Princeton, New Jersey where my father, inom think at the time, was a research associate at Prince