Herbert Goldstein

For the American Rabbi, see Herbert S. Goldstein.
Herbert Goldstein
Born (1922-06-26)June 26, 1922
Bronx, New York, United States
Died January 12, 2005(2005-01-12) (aged 82)
Nationality United States
Fields Physicist
Institutions Columbia University
Alma mater City College of New York (B.S., 1940)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1943)
Notable awards E. O. Lawrence Award (1962)

Herbert Goldstein (June 26, 1922 – January 12, 2005) was an American physicist and the author of the standard graduate textbook Classical Mechanics.[1]

He received a B.S. from City College of New York in 1940 and a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1943.

From 1942 to 1946, Goldstein was a staff member of the wartime Radiation Laboratory at M.I.T., where he engaged in research on the theory of waveguides and magnetrons and on the characteristics of radar echoes. He was an instructor in the Physics Department at Harvard University from 1946 to 1949. In 1949–50 he was an AEC postdoctoral Fellow at M.I.T., and served as a Visiting Associate Professor of Physics at Brandeis University, 1952–53. From 1950, Goldstein was a Senior Physicist at Nuclear Development Corporation of America, where he directed theoretical research on the shielding of nuclear reactors and on neutron cross sections of interest for reactor design.

From 1961 Goldstein was a professor of nuclear science and engineering at Columbia University. At the time of his death he was Professor Emeritus.

Goldstein won the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award in 1962 for his "contributions to reactor physics and to nuclear cross sections, and for his leadership in establishing a rational scientific basis for nuclear shield design".

He was a founding member and served as president of the Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists. He was buried in Israel.[2]

Books

References

  1. Moulton, E. J. (1952). "Review: Classical Mechanics by H. Goldstein" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 58 (3): 396–399. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1952-09590-2.
  2. Maskewitz, Betty F. (February 2005). "Obituary—Herbert Goldstein, Nuclear Scientist—RSICC Friend". RSICC Newsletter.
  3. Rosenhead, L. (1951). "Review of Classical Mechanics". The Mathematical Gazette. 35 (311): 66–67. doi:10.2307/3610571. JSTOR 3610571.

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