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Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber
Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber
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Probably, her happy marriage and family life helped her achieve an ever-cheerfuT disposition. Gertrude Scharff was born in Mannheim, Germany, on July 14 (Bastille Day)
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is macle of. "i A frequent pattern in those days was for students to spend semesters at various universities, and she did that three times, visiting Freiburg, Zurich, en c!
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that women faculty there in more recent times have expressed a debt to her for waging a struggle that at least weakener! the resistance to hiring women that she experiencec!
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mathematics teachers and in 1960 she started the still justly famous monthly Brookhaven Lecture series. Trucle server!
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and then gamma radiation emitted or absorbed by nuclei (1942~. In the early 1940s, Trude found that spontaneous nuclear fission, which might have been a gentler process than neutron-inclucec!
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nucleon clustering: there was speculation that the forces that were known to act between free nucleons were somehow modified in dense nuclear matter and that shell structure existed only for ground states. Evidence for shell closures in heavier nuclei lackey!
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The value in the lower mass region is near the ratio of 2 iclentifiec! with phonon excitation in spherical nuclei, whereas in the upper mass region the value is near 10/3, signaling an abrupt change to the rotational states of cleformec!
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Taken as a whole, Trucle Goic~haber's work playact an integral part in unfoIcling the story of nuclear structure, alerting experimentalists to regions of the periodic table of importance en c! confronting theorists with the realities of nature.
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Diversity was as acimirable as it was amazing. With her intermittent hospitalizations, the last years were akin to a stone skipping on the water, rising again and again, usually not quite as high as the previous time, en c!
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Distinguished physicists manifest lifelong commitment to succeed.
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Identification of beta rays with atomic electrons.
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Extension of the variable moment of inertia model toward magic nuclei.
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