“A friend of mine tried to annoy me with bird puns, but I soon realized that toucan play at that game.”
Maurice GoldhaberBorn 18 Apr 1911; died 11 May 2011 at age 100.Austrian-American physicistwho devised an experiment to show that neutrinos always rotate in one direction (only counterclockwise). His method was simple, elegant, and used an apparatus small enough to fit on a benchtop, rather than employing a huge accelerator. He alsodiscovered that the nucleus of the deuterium atom consists of a proton and a neutron. In the decade (1961-73) that he headed the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, he oversaw the experiments there which led to three Nobel Prizes. He died at age 100.« |
