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ACADEMIC CAREER Marvin Goldberger received his PhD in physics from the University Of Chicago in 1948 or 1949. His thesis advisor was Enrico Fermi . The title of his thesis was "Interaction of High- Energy Neutrons with Heavy Nuclei". [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/id.phtml?id=10736 Mathematics Genealogy Project] Retrieved 1/10/2007. Dr. Goldberger was a professor of physics at Princeton University from 1957 through 1977. He received the . From 1978 through 1987 he served as president of Caltech . He was the Director of the Institute For Advanced Study from 1987 to 1991. From 1991 to 1993 he was a professor of physics at the University Of California, Los Angeles . From 1993 to the present he has been a professor of physics at the University Of California, San Diego , where he has served as Dean of Natural Sciences. He is currently an emeritus professor at UC San Diego. SCIENTIFIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS Around 1958, he and Sam Bard Treiman derived the so-called ADVISORY WORK He was a member of JASON . He has been involved in nuclear arms control efforts. He has also advised a number of major corporations; for example he was on the board of directors of General Motors for 12 years. PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY Marvin Goldberger is the author or coauthor of several books. 2 3(corrected version of book originally published in 1964) NOTES
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