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American theoretical physicist
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Sheldon Goldstein (born October 24, 1947, in Augusta, Georgia) is an American theoretical physicist. He introduced the term "Bohmian mechanics".

Biography

Goldstein graduated from Yeshiva University with a B.A. in 1969, a B.S. in 1971, and a Ph.D. in physics in 1973. His Ph.D. thesis, supervised by Joel Lebowitz, is entitled Ergodic Theory and Infinite Systems Since 1977 Goldstein has been a professor at Rutgers University. His research deals with the foundations of quantum mechanics and, especially, theoretical developments of De Broglie–Bohm theory. His collaborators include Joel Lebowitz and Detlef Dürr. In a 1981 paper, Goldstein and Oliver Penrose described a new method of defining nonequilibrium entropy in statistical mechanics. Goldstein contributed the article Bohmian Mechanics to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

For two academic years from 1973 to 1975, Goldstein was at the Institute for Advanced Study. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a member of the board of governors of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics (founded by Tim Maudlin).

Sheldon Goldstein and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, a novelist and philosopher, were married from 1969 to 1999, until they divorced. They are the parents of the novelist Yael Goldstein Love and the poet Danielle Blau.

Selected publications

References

  1. biographical information from American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004.
  2. Freire Jr., Olival (5 September 2019). David Bohm: A Life Dedicated to Understanding the Quantum World. Springer. p. 198. ISBN 9783030227159.
  3. Goldstein, Sheldon. "Ergodic Theory and Infinite Systems". Yeshiva Academic Institutional Repository (YAIR). (doctoral dissertation)
  4. "Homepage of Sheldon Goldstein". Mathematics Department, Rutgers University. (with reprints & recent publications)
  5. Goldstein, Sheldon; Lebowitz, Joel L. (1974). "Ergodic properties of an infinite system of particles moving independently in a periodic field". Communications in Mathematical Physics. 37 (1): 1–18. Bibcode:1974CMaPh..37....1G. doi:10.1007/BF01646030. S2CID 3560060.
  6. Dürr, D.; Goldstein, S.; Lebowitz, J. L. (1981). "A mechanical model of Brownian motion". Communications in Mathematical Physics. 78 (4): 507–530. Bibcode:1981CMaPh..78..507D. doi:10.1007/BF02046762. S2CID 44757047.
  7. Dürr, D.; Goldstein, S.; Tumulka, R.; Zanghí, N. (2009). "Bohmian Mechanics". Compendium of Quantum Physics. Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 47–55. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-70626-7_16. ISBN 978-3-540-70622-9. arXiv preprint
  8. Goldstein, S.; Penrose, O. (1981). "A nonequilibrium entropy for dynamical systems". Journal of Statistical Physics. 24 (2): 325–343. Bibcode:1981JSP....24..325G. doi:10.1007/BF01013304. S2CID 123046920.
  9. Goldstein, Sheldon (26 October 2001). "Bohmian Mechanics". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  10. "Sheldon Goldstein". Institute for Advanced Study (ias.edu). 9 December 2019.
  11. "John Bell Institute - Directors & Governors".
  12. "About Yael Goldstein-Love". yaelgoldsteinlove.com.
  13. "bio". Danielle Blau (danielleblau.com).
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