Herbert Goldstein

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Herbert Goldstein

Physics

#833

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#1342

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#382

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Herbert Goldstein's Degrees

PhD Physics Princeton University
Bachelors Physics Columbia University

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According to Wikipedia, Herbert Goldstein was an American physicist and the author of the standard graduate textbook Classical Mechanics. Life and work Goldstein, long recognized for his scholarship in classical mechanics and reactor shielding, was the author of the graduate textbook, Classical Mechanics. The book has been a standard text since it first appeared in 1950 and has been translated into nine languages. He received a B.S. from City College of New York in 1940 and a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1943. From 1942 to 1946, Goldstein was a staff member of the wartime Radiation Laboratory at M.I.T., where he engaged in research on the theory of waveguides and magnetrons and on the characteristics of radar echoes. He was an instructor in the physics department at Harvard University from 1946 to 1949. In 1949–50 he was an AEC postdoctoral Fellow at M.I.T., and served as a Visiting Associate Professor of Physics at Brandeis University, 1952–53. From 1950, Goldstein was a senior physicist at Nuclear Development Corporation of America, where he directed theoretical research on the shielding of nuclear reactors and on neutron cross sections of interest for reactor design. Goldstein won the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award in 1962 for his "contributions to reactor physics and to nuclear cross sections, and for his leadership in establishing a rational scientific basis for nuclear shield design".

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Herbert Goldstein's Published Works

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Published Works

Fundamental aspects of reactor shielding (1959) (186)
On the field configuration in magnetic clouds (1983) (146)
The effects of Coulomb collisions on solar wind ion velocity distributions (1983) (44)
CALCULATIONS OF THE PENETRATIONS OF GAMMA RAYS. FINAL REPORT (1954) (38)
The attenuation of gamma rays and neutrons in reactor shields (1957) (30)
Progress in Fast Neutron Physics (1964) (27)
Engineering Compendium on Radiation Shielding, Vol. 1: Shielding Fundamentals, and Methods (1970) (19)
Theory of the plasma sheet in the jovian magnetosphere (1977) (14)
The Classical Motion of a Rigid Charged Body in a Magnetic Field (1951) (12)
GAMMA RAYS FROM THERMAL-NEUTRON CAPTURE (1960) (11)
Numerical calculation of bound geodesics in the Kerr metric (1974) (10)
Radar targets and echoes (1987) (10)
Neutron slowing down and transport in a medium of constant cross section. I. Spatial moments (1977) (10)
A COMPILATION OF INFORMATION ON GAMMA-RAY SPECTRA RESULTING FROM THERMAL- NEUTRON CAPTURE (1961) (7)
PENETRATION OF NEUTRONS FROM A POINT ISOTROPIC FISSION SOURCE IN WATER (1954) (7)
Effects of Highly Anisotropic Scattering on Monoenergetic Neutron Transport at Deep Penetrations (1974) (7)
A LISTING OF CINDA, AN INDEX TO THE LITERATURE ON MICROSCOPIC NEUTRON DATA, (1964) (6)
AN INTERIM REPORT ON THE NEUTRON CROSS SECTIONS OF OXYGEN (1958) (6)
Some Calculations on the Age of Neutrons in D2O (1961) (6)
High speed photography of the cathode-ray tube. (1946) (5)
REVISED CROSS SECTIONS FOR NEUTRON INTERACTIONS WITH OXYGEN AND DEUTERIUM. Final Report (1962) (4)
Appendix B: Coherent and incoherent scattering from assemblies of scatterers (1987) (4)
Reflections from the Earth's surface (1987) (3)
PENETRATION OF NEUTRONS FROM A POINT FISSION SOURCE THROUGH BERYLLIUM AND BERYLLIUM OXIDE (1958) (3)
A Discrete Energy Formulation of Neutron Transport Theory Applied to Solving the Discrete Ordinates Equations (1976) (3)
Systematic Calculations of Gamma-Ray Penetration (1953) (3)
Application of a discrete-energy, discrete-ordinates technique to the study of neutron transport in iron (1974) (2)
NEUTRON CROSS SECTION DATA FOR CARBON (1956) (2)
PENETRATION OF NEUTRONS FROM POINT ISOTROPIC MONOENERGETIC SOURCES IN WATER (1954) (2)
THE NEUTRON CROSS SECTIONS OF NITROGEN (1957) (2)
PULSED-SOURCE MEASUREMENTS OF NEUTRON-DIFFUSION PARAMETERS IN WATER (1965) (2)
Two neutron sciences (1966) (1)
RECONSTRUCTION OF NEUTRON SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS FROM SPATIAL MOMENTS. (1970) (1)
VARIATIONAL MONTE CARLO CALCULATIONS OF FLUX DEPRESSION IN FOILS (1962) (1)
GUIDE TO SEAC PRINTED OUTPUT TAPES OF GAMMA RAY PENETRATION CALCULATIONS (1955) (1)
PENETRATION OF 14 MEV NEUTRONS IN WATER (1957) (1)
SURVEY OF THEORETICAL STUDIES AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ON FAST NEUTRON TRANSPORT IN IRON. (1970) (1)
Extrapolation Distance for Anisotropic Scattering (1967) (1)
Theoretical studies of the sensitivity of neutron transport in iron to cross section properties (1975) (1)
PROPAGATION OF A SURFACE WAVE ALONG A DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDE WITH AN ABRUPT CHANGE OF PARAMETERS I. SOLUTION BY THE FACTORING METHOD (1983) (1)
FIELD OF SHIELDING TECHNOLOGY. (1968) (1)
STATUS REPORT ON CALCULATION OF GAMMA RAY PENETRATION (1953) (1)
CURRENT OUTSTANDING SHIELDING PROBLEMS (1962) (1)
PENETRATION OF NEUTRONS FROM A POINT FISSION SOURCE THROUGH CARBON AND HYDROCARBONS (1956) (1)
THE SLOWING DOWN OF NEUTRONS IN HYDROGENOUS MEDIA--STATUS OF THEORY AND EXPERIMENT (1958) (1)
Applications of discrete-energy S n transport calculations to the neutronics of CTR blankets and shields. | Article Information | J-GLOBAL (1974) (1)
CALCULATIONS OF NEUTRON AGE IN H$sub 2$O AND OTHER MATERIALS (1961) (0)
Gamma-Transmission in Iron, Tungsten, Lead, Uranium, and a Pure Compton Scattered by Root-Mean-Square Angle Calculation, (1951) (0)
ROLE OF CROSS SECTION MINIMA IN THE DEEP PENETRATION OF FAST NEUTRONS. (1972) (0)
MEASUREMENTS AND CALCULATIONS OF FAST-NEUTRON ATTENUATION AND THERMALIZATION IN H$sub 2$O (1965) (0)
Cross-section sensitivities for sodium in relation to fast reactor shielding (1974) (0)
FINAL REPORT ON SHIELDING CONTRACT FOR 1956 (1956) (0)
ATTENUATION OF LiH REACTOR SHIELD PLUG (1954) (0)
14-MeV NEUTRON TRANSPORT IN IRON. (1971) (0)
A very personal view of the development of radiation shielding theory (1992) (0)
STATUS REPORT ON CROSS SECTION MEASUREMENTS IN NORTH AMERICA ON THE FISSIONABLE NUCLEI (1962) (0)
NEUTRON DATA NEEDED FOR SHIELDING AND REACTOR DESIGN (1953) (0)
FAST-NEUTRON ELASTIC-AND INELASTIC-SCATTERING CROSS SECTIONS (1965) (0)
EFFECTS OF CROSS-SECTION MINIMA ON DEEP PENETRATION OF NEUTRONS. (1969) (0)
Space Research II: Proceedings of the Second International Space Science Symposium, Florence, April 10-14, 1961. (1963) (0)
THE PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION AND CONSUMPTION OF MICROSCOPIC NEUTRON CROSS SECTIONS (1964) (0)
Kinetic theory of neutron gases. Progress report, October 1, 1974--June 30, 1975 (1975) (0)
CROSS-SECTION REQUIREMENTS FOR NEUTRON SHIELDING. (1968) (0)
Fusion/fission hybrid reactor reaction rate sensitivity to changes in fission spectrum (1979) (0)
Engineering Compendium on Radiation Shielding: Vol. III, Shield Design and Engineering (1972) (0)
NEW NEUTRON MOMENTS PROGRAM AND APPLICATIONS TO BeO. (1969) (0)
AGE AND FAST EFFECT FOR FISSION AND 14-MeV NEUTRON SOURCES IN Be AND BeO: SENSITIVITY TO CROSS-SECTION DATA. (1970) (0)
FORMATION OF NEUTRON BEAMS WITH SPECIAL PROPERTIES (1963) (0)
Nuclear Reactions Volume II (1966) (0)
CARBON SHIELDING BENCHMARK PROBLEM AND OTHER NEUTRON TRANSPORT CALCULATIONS IN CARBON. (1972) (0)
DISCRETE ENERGY FORMULATION OF S/sub n/ TRANSPORT THEORY. (1971) (0)
INTERIM REPORT ON THE NDA--NBS CALCULATIONS OF GAMMA RAY PENETRATION (1953) (0)
Mechanisms of fast-neutron penetration through thick layers of sodium (1974) (0)
THE PENETRATION AND SLOWING DOWN OF FAST NEUTRONS IN BERYLLIUM AND BERYLLIUM OXIDE (1961) (0)
Parasitic absorption and leakage corrections for MnSO/sub 4/ baths (1980) (0)
THE RESONANCE STRUCTURE OF U$sup 235$ CROSS SECTIONS (1957) (0)
Dependence of calculated albedos on order of scattering kernel expansion (1977) (0)
P/sub L/ APPROXIMATION IN MONOENERGETIC TRANSPORT THEORY WITH ARBITRARY ANISOTROPY. (1971) (0)
MECHANISM OF FAST NEUTRON TRANSPORT IN IRON. (1972) (0)
THE EFFECT OF VARIATIONS IN THE FISSION NEUTRON SPECTRUM AT HIGH ENERGIES ON THE AGE OF FISSION NEUTRONS IN WATER (1957) (0)
CALCULATIONS OF NEUTRON LEAKAGE AND HIGH ENERGY ABSORPTIONS IN A MANGANESE SULFATE BATH (1962) (0)
EFFECT OF ANISOTROPIC SCATTERING ON THE PROPAGATION OF NEUTRONS IN SHIELDS. (1968) (0)