Gerson Goldhaber, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gerson Goldhaber

Particle Physicist and astrophysicist

Date of Birth: 20-Feb-1924

Place of Birth: Chemnitz, Germany

Date of Death: 19-Jul-2010

Profession: astronomer, physicist, astrophysicist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Gerson Goldhaber (February 20, 1924 – July 19, 2010) was a German-born American particle physicist and astrophysicist.
He was one of the discoverers of the J/? meson which confirmed the existence of the charm quark.
He worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with the Supernova Cosmology Project, and was a professor of physics emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley as well as a professor at Berkeley's graduate school in astrophysics.