Jeffrey Goldstone

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

Jeffrey Goldstone
Born (1933-09-03) 3 September 1933
Manchester, UK
NationalityBritish
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Known forNambu–Goldstone boson
Scientific career
FieldsQuantum mechanics
InstitutionsMIT
Cambridge
Doctoral advisorHans Bethe

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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