Herbert Goldstein

For the American Rabbi, see Herbert S. Goldstein.

Herbert Goldstein
Born	June 26, 1922(1922-06-26) Bronx, New York, USA
Died	January 12, 2005(2005-01-12) (aged 82)
Nationality	United States
Fields	Physicist
Institutions	Columbia University

Herbert Goldstein (June 26, 1922 – January 12, 2005) was an American physicist and the author of the standard graduate textbook Classical Mechanics. He received a B.S. from City College of New York in 1940 and a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1943.

Goldstein was from 1942 to 1946 a staff member of the wartime Radiation Laboratory at M.I.T., where he engaged in research on the theory of waveguides and magnetrons and on the characteristics of radar echoes. He was an instructor in the Physics Department at Harvard University from 1946 to 1949. In 1949–50 he was an AEC postdoctoral Fellow at M.I.T., and served as a Visiting Associate Professor of Physics at Brandeis University, 1952–53. From 1950, Goldstein was a Senior Physicist at Nuclear Development Corporation of America, where he directed theoretical research on the shielding of nuclear reactors and on neutron cross sections of interest for reactor design.

He was a founding member and served as president of the Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists. When he died he was a Professor Emeritus of nuclear science and engineering at Columbia University.

External links

• Classical Mechanics, second edition Addison-Wesley 1964, Herbert Goldstein.
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory Obituary
• Columbia university Obituary