biography
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1911– )
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Lemberg, Austria. As a fellow at Cambridge University, he discovered the nuclear photodisintegration effect with colleague James Chadwick (1934). He went to the USA to join the University of Illinois (1938–50), where he and his wife, Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber, demonstrated the identity of beta rays with electrons. At Brookhaven National Laboratory, he continued to make major contributions to studies of elementary particles. |
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