Goldberger, Marvin L.
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Name (Latin)
Goldberger, Marvin L.
Other forms of name
Goldberger, Murph
Date of birth
1922-10-22
Date of death
2014-11-26
Field of activity
Physics
Occupation
College presidents
Physicists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- LC data base, 11-21-83(hdg.: Goldberger, Marvin L.; usage: Marvin L. Goldberger)
- LCCN 64-17819: His Collision theory, 1964(hdg.: Goldberger, Marvin L.; usage: Marvin L. Goldberger)
- Los Angeles times WWW site, Dec. 3, 2014(in obituary dated Nov. 28, 2014: Marvin L. "Murph" Goldberger, a physicist who was Caltech's fifth president, died Wednesday [Nov. 24, 2014] in La Jolla [San Diego, Calif.], at 92; was teaching at Princeton University when he was named Caltech president in 1978; had a nine-year tenure there; born in Chicago on Oct. 22, 1922; earned a doctorate in physics at the University of Chicago in 1948; joined the University of Chicago faculty in 1950, where he remained for seven years before becoming a professor of physics and mathematics at Princeton University; spent two decades at Princeton, including six years as chair of the physics department, from 1970 to 1976; left Caltech to become director of the Institute for Advanced Study, the Princeton, N.J., think tank; held that post from 1987 to 1991, when he moved to UCLA to teach physics; spent his last years at UC San Diego, where he was dean of the school of natural sciences from 1994 to 1999)
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