Scharff-Goldhaber, Gertrude (1911–1998)
Scharff-Goldhaber, Gertrude (1911–1998)
American nuclear physicist. Name variations: Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber; Mrs. Maurice Goldhaber. Born Gertrude Scharff in Mannheim, Germany, on July 14, 1911; died Feb 2, 1998, in Bayport, NY; dau. of Otto Scharff and Nelly (Steinharter) Scharff; attended universities of Freiburg, Zurich, and Berlin; University of Munich, PhD, 1935; m. Maurice Goldhaber (director of Brookhaven National Laboratory), May 24, 1939; sister-in-law of Sulamith Goldhaber (d. 1965, physicist); children: Alfred Scharff Goldhaber; Michael Henry Goldhaber.
Was a research associate at Imperial College, London (1935–39); arrived in US (1939) and became US citizen (1944); was a research physicist at University of Illinois, Champaign (1939–48), then assistant professor (1948–50); served as associate physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY (1950–58), becoming senior physicist (1962); at Brookhaven, was immersed in both theoretical and experimental work, ascertaining the detailed properties of nuclear energy levels and magnetic moments to gain a better grasp of nuclear structure; served on Committee on Problems of Women in Physics (1971).