Edwin L. Goldwasser (March 9, 1919 — December 14, 2016) was an American physicist and Co-Founder of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the field of particle physics. He was a Professor of Physics Emeritus and former Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs at the

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, as well as the first Deputy Director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. His interests were photons, cosmic rays, charged particles and elementary particles. He was Fellow to the

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and

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(elected in 1961). He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1957–1958.

Life and career

Ned was born in

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, attending the

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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 OrdnanceLife remembered, True giant in field of physics
December 17, 2016, news-gazette.com Goldwasser's father was

I. Edwin Goldwasser Israel Edwin Goldwasser (August 6, 1878 – June 29, 1974) was a Jewish-American teacher, principal, philanthropist, and businessman from New York. Life Goldwasser was born on August 6, 1878, in New York City, New York, the son of Henry Philip Gol ...

, a teacher, philanthropist, and businessman.

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