Maurice Goldhaber

thumb|Maurice Goldhaber in 1937 Maurice Goldhaber (April 18, 1911 – May 11, 2011), wass an Austrian-American physicist, who established together with James Chadwick, while working in 1934 at the Cavendish Laboratory, that the neutron isn't a compound of electron and proton. In 1957, together with Lee Grodzins and Andrew Sunyar, he established that neutrinos have negative helicity. Sourced Then I went to the Cavendish and there I took Rutherford’s course in nuclear physics. He was a very dramatic lecturer and full of anecdotes. He made it come alive. So this was very impressive--also very phenomenological, everything he did; very simple derivations. I think that’s very important for the first learning and this is perhaps something students now miss. They get the theory of nuclear physics thrown at them; sometimes before they ever know there is a phenomenon they have the complete theory of it. The phenomena are not sufficiently emphasized, I think, in teaching today. Interview of Maurice Goldhaber by Charles Weiner and Gloria Lubkin at Brookhaven National Laboratory on January 10, 1967, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD USA Do you remember Antaeus, from Greek mythology? ... Antaeus was the strongest person alive, invincible as long as he was in contact with Gaia his mother, the earth. Once he lost contact with the earth, he grew weak and was vanquished. Theories in physics are like that. They have to touch ground for their strength. as quoted by Robert P. Crease and Charles C. Mann in: The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1984/08/how-the-universe-works/666820/ August 1984 How the Universe Works. The ultimate goal of physics is a theory that explains all matter and energy. Today physicists may be close to achieving that goal, in large part because of the efforts of Sheldon L. Glashow External links Category:Physicists from the United States Category:Physicists from Austria Category:Jews from the United States Category:Jews from Austria Category:Centenarians Category:1911 births Category:2011 deaths Category:Wolf Prize in Physics laureates Category:National Medal of Science laureates Category:University of Cambridge alumni Category:Members of the American Philosophical Society Category:Immigrants to the United States Category:People from Lviv