Sheldon Goldstein

Sheldon Goldstein (born October 24, 1947, in Augusta, Georgia)[1] is an American theoretical physicist. He introduced the term "Bohmian mechanics".[2]

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 [3] Since 1977 Goldstein has been a professor at Rutgers University.[4] His research deals with the foundations of quantum mechanics and, especially, theoretical developments of De Broglie–Bohm theory. His collaborators include Joel Lebowitz[5][6] and Detlef Dürr.[7] In a 1981 paper, Goldstein and Oliver Penrose described a new method of defining nonequilibrium entropy in statistical mechanics.[8] Goldstein contributed the article Bohmian Mechanics to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. [9]

For two academic years from 1973 to 1975, Goldstein was at the Institute for Advanced Study.[10] 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[11] (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[12] and the poet Danielle Blau.[13]

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).