Goldhaber, Maurice (1911– )

Austrian physicist. As a fellow at Cambridge University, he discovered the nuclear photodisintegration effect with collaborator James Chadwick (1934). He moved from England to the USA to join the University of Illinois (1938–50), where he and his wife Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber demonstrated the connection between beta rays and electrons. At Brookhaven National Laboratory, Goldhaber continued to make a major contribution to the study of elementary particles.

He was born in Lemberg, Austria (modern Lviv, Ukraine).