Marvin Leonard Goldberger was born in 1922 or 1923.

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] The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. ... Enrico Fermi (September 29, 1901 – November 28, 1954) was an Italian physicist most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, particle physics and statistical mechanics. ...

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. Princeton University is a coeducational private university located in Princeton, New Jersey in the United States of America. ... Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics is an award given each year since 1959 jointly by American Physical Society and American Institute of Physics. ... President Harding and the National Academy of Sciences at the White House, Washington, DC, April 1921 The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine. ... California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology (commonly known as Caltech) is a private, coeducational university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. ... Fuld Hall The Institute for Advanced Study is a private institution in Princeton Township, New Jersey, U.S.A. (although it is not part of Princeton University), designed to foster pure cutting-edge research by scientists in a variety of fields without the complications of teaching or funding, or the... The University of California, Los Angeles, generally known as UCLA, is a public university whose main campus is located in the affluent Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. ... The University of California, San Diego (popularly known as UCSD) is a public, coeducational university located in La Jolla, California. ...

Scientific accomplishments

Around 1958, he and Sam Bard Treiman derived the so-called Goldberger-Treiman relations. ^[3] Sam Treiman is an American theoretical physicist who produced important research in the fields of quantum physics, plasma physics and gravity physics. ...

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. Jason (Greek: Ιάσων, Etruscan: Easun) is a hero of Greek mythology who led the Argonauts in the search of the Golden Fleece. ... General Motors Corporation, also known as GM, is the worlds largest car manufacturer. ...

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. 

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.