Maurice Goldhaber

Maurice Goldhaber was an American physicist, born in Austria-Hungary, who lived from 1911 to 2011, known for discovering that deuterons are composed of a neutron and a proton, for the first measurement of neutron mass, and for the Goldhaber experiment establishing that neutrinos have negative helicity. He worked at Cambridge own Cavendish Laboratory from 1934, the University of Illinois from 1938, and Brookhaven National Laboratory from 1950 to 1973, where he served as director. He received the National Medal of Science in 1983 and the Fermi Award in 1998, and served as president of the American Physical Society in 1982. He received the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1991, shared with Valentine Telegdi.