Jeffrey Goldstone
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Jeffrey Goldstone (born 3 September 1933) is a British theoretical physicist and an emeritus physics faculty member at the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics.
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Jeffrey Goldstone | |
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Born | (1933-09-03) 3 September 1933 (age 90) Manchester, UK |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Known for | Goldstone boson Linked-cluster theorem |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Quantum mechanics |
Institutions | MIT Cambridge |
Doctoral advisor | Hans Bethe |
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He worked at the University of Cambridge until 1977. He is noted for the discovery of the Nambu–Goldstone boson. He is currently working on quantum computation.