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Alfred Scharff Goldhaber

Title: Toll Professor of Physics (Emeritus)

Institution: Stony Brook

Discipline: Physics & Cosmology

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Notable: Harvard BA Summa Cum Laude (1961); pioneer in magnetic monopole research; co-author of 'The Quantum Moment' (W.W. Norton); second of three generations of physicists in the Goldhaber family (parents Maurice and Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber were distinguished nuclear physicists)

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Theoretical physicist and professor at the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University. A leader in the study of magnetic monopoles, his research spans elementary particles, nuclei, condensed matter, and cosmology. Co-author with Robert P. Crease of 'The Quantum Moment,' exploring the cultural impact of quantum mechanics.

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