Goldhaber is a German surname meaning "gold oats"; or "possessor of gold".Hanks, Patrick et al. (2002) ''The Oxford Surnames Companion''. Oxford U P; p. 252 Notable people with the surname include: *

Gerson Goldhaber Gerson Goldhaber (February 20, 1924 – July 19, 2010) was a German-born American particle physicist and astrophysicist. He was one of the discoverers of the J/ψ meson which confirmed the existence of the charm quark. He worked at Lawrence Be ...

(1924–2010), German-born American physicist *

Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber (July 14, 1911 – February 2, 1998) was a German-born Jewish-American nuclear physicist. She earned her PhD from the University of Munich, and though her family suffered during The Holocaust, Gertrude was able to escap ...

(1911–1998), German-American physicist * Marcus Goldhaber (born 1978), American jazz vocalist and band leader *

Maurice Goldhaber Maurice Goldhaber (April 18, 1911 – May 11, 2011) was an American physicist, who in 1957 (with Lee Grodzins and Andrew Sunyar) established that neutrinos have negative helicity. Early life and childhood He was born on April 18, 1911, in L ...

(1911–2011), Austro-Hungarian-born American physicist *

Nat Goldhaber A. Nathaniel ("Nat") Goldhaber is an American venture capitalist, computer entrepreneur and politician. Goldhaber helped found Maharishi International University and was special assistant to lieutenant governor William Scranton III and founder ...

, American venture capitalist, computer entrepreneur and politician * Sulamith Goldhaber (1923–1965), Austrian-born American physicist

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