Marvin Leonard Goldberger

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Marvin Leonard Goldberger (born 22 October 1922 in Chicago, Illinois) is a physicist and former president of the California Institute of Technology.

Contents 1 Academic career 2 Scientific accomplishments 3 Advisory work 4 Partial Bibliography 5 Notes

[edit] Academic career

Marvin Goldberger received his PhD in physics from the University of Chicago in 1948 or 1949. His thesis advisor was Enrico Fermi. The title of his thesis was "Interaction of High- Energy Neutrons with Heavy Nuclei". ^[1]

Dr. Goldberger was a professor of physics at Princeton University from 1957 through 1977. He received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics in 1961,^[2], and in 1963 was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. From 1978 through 1987 he served as president of Caltech. He was the Director of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1987 to 1991. From 1991 to 1993 he was a professor of physics at the University of California, Los Angeles. From 1993 to the present he has been a professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego, where he has served as Dean of Natural Sciences. He is currently an emeritus professor at UC San Diego.

[edit] Scientific accomplishments

Around 1958, he and Sam Bard Treiman derived the so-called Goldberger-Treiman relations. ^[3]

[edit] Advisory work

He was a member of JASON. He has been involved in nuclear arms control efforts. He has also advised a number of major corporations; for example he was on the board of directors of General Motors for 12 years.

[edit] Partial Bibliography

Marvin Goldberger is the author or coauthor of several books.

Marvin L. Goldberger (1961). Introduction to the theory and applications of dispersion relations. Hermann. 

Marvin L. Goldberger and Kenneth M. Watson (2004). Collision Theory. Dover. ISBN 0-486-43507-5. (corrected version of book originally published in 1964)

Francesco Calogero, Marvin L. Goldberger, and Sergei P. Kapitza (editor) (1991). Verification: Monitoring Disarmament. Westview Press. ISBN 0-813-30965-4. 

[edit] Notes

1. ^ [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/id.phtml?id=10736 Mathematics Genealogy Project] Retrieved 1/10/2007.
2. ^ [1]APS page on Dannie Heineman Prize, retrieved January 10, 2007
3. ^ Golberger, Marvin L.; Treibman, S.B. (1958). "Decay of the π Meson". Physical Review 110: 1178. 

Academic Offices
Preceded by Robert Christy, acting	President of the California Institute of Technology 1978–1987	Succeeded by Thomas Eugene Everhart