Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber
- Born: July 14, 1911 (Mannheim, Germany)
- Died: February 2, 1998 (Patchogue, New York)
Education
- 1935: PhD, University of Munich (Physics)
Major Positions
- 1935–1939: Imperial College London, Research Associate
- 1939–1948: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Research Physicist
- 1948–1950: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Special Research Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1950–1958: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Associate Physicist
- 1958–1962: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Physicist
- 1962–1979: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Senior Physicist
Other Positions
- 1948–1950: Argonne National Laboratory, Consultant
Selected Part-Time Positions
- 1959–1964: Member, Advisory Panel on the Nuclear Data Project, National Research Council
- 1969–1971: Chair, Panel for Evaluation of Nuclear Data Compilations, National Research Council
- 1972–1974: Member, Research Advisory Committee, National Science Foundation
- 1972–1977: Member, Board of Trustees, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- 1974–1977: Scientific Consultant, Arms Control Disarmament Agency
- 1977–1979: Member, Nominating Committee for the Presidential Medal of Science
- 1978–1983: Member, Committee on the Education and Employment of Women in Science and Engineering, Commission on Human Resources, National Research Council
- 1980–1982: Adjunct Professor, Cornell University
- 1982–1986: Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Selected Awards and Honors
- 1947: American Physical Society, Fellow
- 1972: National Academy of Sciences, Member
Published Resources
Peter D. Bond and Ernest Henley, "Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber: 1911-1998", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
Alfred Scharff Goldhaber, "Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber (1911-1998)," in Out of the Shadows: Contributions of Twentieth-Century Women to Physics, ed. Nina Byers and Gary Williams (New York: Cambridge University Press: 2006), 262-271
