| LC control no. | n 83827927 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Goldberger, Marvin L. |
| Variant(s) | Goldberger, Murph |
| Associated place | Pasadena (Calif.) Princeton (N.J.) Los Angeles (Calif.) |
| Birth date | 19221022 |
| Death date | 20141124 |
| Place of birth | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Place of death | San Diego (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Physics |
| Affiliation | California Institute of Technology Princeton University University of Chicago Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.) University of California, San Diego |
| Profession or occupation | Physicists College presidents |
| Found in | LCCN 64-17819: His Collision theory, 1964 (hdg.: Goldberger, Marvin L.; usage: Marvin L. Goldberger) LC data base, 11-21-83 (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) |
| Associated language | eng |
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