Ned Goldwasser

Ned Goldwasser (born Edwin L. Goldwasser, March 9, 1919 — December 14, 2016) was an American physicist and Co-Founder of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory[1] and the field of particle physics.[2] He was a Professor of Physics Emeritus and former Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois, as well as the first Deputy Director of Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory. His interests were photons, cosmic rays, charged particles and elementary particles. He was Fellow to the American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Physical Society (elected in 1961).[3][4] He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1957–1958.[5]

Life and career

Ned was born in Manhattan, attending the Horace Mann school and later graduating at Harvard, majoring in physics and graduating in 1940. His first job was in the Navy, working as a civilian physicist for the Bureau of Ordnance[6]

References
  1. "FermiLab co-founder, physicist Edwin Goldwasser, dead at 97". suntimes.com. December 17, 2016. Retrieved November 28, 2017.
  2. "Need Goldwasser, Fermilabs' first deputy director, does". fnal.gov. December 2016. Retrieved November 28, 2017.
  3. "Memorial". illinois.edu. Retrieved November 28, 2017.
  4. "APS Fellow Archive".
  5. "Edwin L. Goldwasser". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
  6. Life remembered, True giant in field of physics, December 17, 2016, news-gazette.com
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