Marvin L. Goldberger

Dr. Marvin L. Goldberger is currently a professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. In 1959 Goldberger, along with Sam Treiman established the Goldberger-Treiman relations, which gave a quantitative connection between the strong and weak interaction properties of the proton and neutron. From 1978-1987 he served as the president of CalTech where he stressed undergraduate education, and oversaw the revision of teaching standards, restructuring of curriculum, and the renovation of the undergraduate dorms. Goldberger was the cochairman of the National Research Council and a member of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation International Advisory Board. He has authored works such as Collision Theory and was the editor of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States: Continuity and Change and Verification: Monitoring Disarmament (Pugwash Monograph). Goldberger is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.