Jeffrey Goldstone

Jeffrey Goldstone
Born (1933-09-03) 3 September 1933 (age 91)
NationalityBritish
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Known forGoldstone boson
Linked-cluster theorem
Effective action
Scientific career
FieldsQuantum mechanics
InstitutionsMIT
Cambridge
Doctoral advisorHans Bethe

Jeffrey Goldstone (born 3 September 1933) is a British theoretical physicist and an emeritus physics faculty member at the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics.

He worked at the University of Cambridge until 1977. He is noted for the discovery of the Nambu–Goldstone boson. He is currently working on quantum computation.


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