DO.GOLDBERGER

Summary Information

Repository
Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center
Title
Director's Office: Director Marvin Goldberger files
ID
DO.GOLDBERGER
Date
1987-1991
Extent
3.0 linear feet
Language
English

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Biographical note

Marvin L. “Murph” Goldberger (1922-2014), a prominent physicist with a distinguished career in higher education, served as the Institute for Advanced Study’s sixth Director from 1987 to 1991. During his tenure, Goldberger created positive growth and change through Faculty appointments and campus building projects, including the buildings now known as Simonyi Hall and Wolfensohn Hall, among other initiatives.

Goldberger, born in 1922 in Chicago, earned his B.S. at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (Carnegie Mellon University) and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. While serving in the Army shortly after graduation, he was assigned to the Manhattan Project, where he worked under renowned physicist Enrico Fermi from 1943­­–45. Goldberger’s association with the Institute began in 1953, while he was on leave from the University of Chicago at Princeton University. Goldberger was a Professor of Physics at Princeton University from 1957–78. He interacted regularly with Institute Director J. Robert Oppenheimer and other physicists at the Institute, where he eventually came as a Member (1966–70,1976­–77) in the School of Natural Sciences. Goldberger helped to guide U.S. science policy in the 1960s, serving on the President’s Science Advisory Committee from 1965–69 and as a consultant to the Department of Defense. Goldberger served as President of the California Institute of Technology from 1978–87.

During his tenure as Director at the Institute, Goldberger created positive growth and change for the institution through Faculty appointments and campus building projects, among other initiatives.

A recipient of the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, Goldberger was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Philosophical Society.

From 1993 until his death in 2014, he served as a Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center

Historical Studies-Social Science Library
Einstein Drive
Princeton
NJ, 08540
609-734-8375
archives@ias.edu

Conditions Governing Access note

Administrative records of the Institute are closed for 30 years from the date of creation. In addition, letters of recommendation are closed until the death of both the author and the subject of the recommendation.

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Collection Inventory

2009.0044 - Professional Files   2.0 linear feet 2 cartons

Processing Information note

Personal financial information was removed.
Box

IAS description undated 

 3

School of Social Science Funding 1991 

 3

School of Historical Studies Funding 1988 

 3

Sakharov Visit to the U.S. 1987 

 3

Norton Simon Museum 1987-1989 

General note

MLG outside activity

 3

Scientists' Institute for Public Information 1987-1991 

General note

MLG outside activity

 3

Sloan Foundation 1987-1991 

General note

MLG outside activity

 3

Streisand Foundation 1987-1991 

General note

MLG outside activity

 3

Theoretical Physics Institute (University of Minnesota) Oversight Committee 1990-1991 

General note

MLG outside activity

 3

20th Century Fund 1987 

 3

University of Chicago 1987 

General note

MLG outside activity

 3

Universities Research Association (URA) 1987-1990 

General note

MLG outside activity

 3

Aspen Institute - Leadership in Science and Public Policy July 2,1989 

General note

MLG speech

 3

ITT Speech - Science and Society February 1, 1989 

General note

MLG speech

 3

Science Advising - Hiroshima to Star Wars, New York Academy of Science March 3, 1987 

General note

MLG speech

 3

Remarks on Introducing Lord Noel Annan, Llewelyn-Davies Lecture October 27, 1987 

General note

MLG speech

 3

Pugwash Correspondence 1989-1991 

General note

MLG outside activity

 3

Pugwash Meeting at IAS 1990 

General note

MLG outside activity

 3

Pugwash Study on Verification Issues 1987-1988 

General note

MLG outside activity

 3

Pugwash Study on Verification Issues 1987-1989 

General note

MLG outside activity

 3

Pugwash Meetings at the UN May 11-14, 1988 

General note

includes MLG speech "Development of New Weapons" - MLG outside activity

 3

Pugwash Meetings, USSR August-September 1988 

 3

Pugwash Meetings, London November 30-December 2, 1988 

 3

Leonard I. Berman Peace and Justice Award November 16, 1987 

General note

MLG award

 3

Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario - Falconbridge Lecture November 3-4, 1987 

General note

MLG speech

 3

Enrico Fermi - The Compleat Physicist, APS/AAPI Meeting January 25, 1988 

General note

MLG speech

 3

Book Review - The Business of Science by Simon Rano 1988 

General note

appeared in Cal Tech Engineering & Science

 3

"Science and Society", Address at Xerox Symposium October 21, 1988 

General note

MLG speech

 3

General Motors (2 folders) 1987-1991 

General note

MLG outside activity

 3

General Motors Oversight Committee 1989 

General note

MLG outside activity

 3

SEC: Form 4 (re: General Motors) 1989-1991 

General note

MLG outside activity

 3

General Motors - ML Goldberger Letter to Directors August 3, 1989 

General note

MLG outside activity

 3

Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy - National Advisory Board 1987-1988 

General note

MLG outside activity

 3

International Federation of Institutes for Advanced Study 1987 

 3

JASON - Mitre Corporation (3 folders) 1987-1990 

General note

MLG outside activity

 3

LaJolla Institute Center for Studies of Nonlinear Dynamics 1988-1989 

General note

MLG outside activity

 3

MacArthur Foundation 1987 

General note

MLG outside activity

 3

Henry Nathan - Millemont 1986-1987 

General note

MLG outside activity

 3

National Research Council - Super Collider Site Evaluation Committee (2 folders) 1987-1989 

General note

mainly Super Collider Site Committee - MLG outside activity

 3

National Academy of Sciences 1987-1991 

General note

MLG outside activity

 4

National Academy of Sciences - Film Committee "The Infinite Voyage" 1988-1989 

General note

MLG outside activity

 4

New Jersey State Board of Higher Education 1987-1988 

 4

New York Academy of Sciences 1988-1990 

General note

MLG outside activity

 4

Office of Technology Assessment 1989-1991 

General note

MLG outside activity

 4

Princeton University 1988 

 4

Princeton University - Plasma Physics Laboratory 1987-1991 

 4

Rutgers University 1990-1991 

 4

Brown University - Public Agenda Foundation and Center for Foreign Policy Development 1988 

General note

MLG outside activity

 4

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 1988-1990 

General note

MLG outside activity

 4

California Commission on Campaign Financing 1988-1989 

General note

MLG outside activity

 4

California Institute of Technology 1987-1989 

 4

Guth v. California Institute of Technology 1987-1989 

 4

CISAC - Committee on International Security and Arms Control 1987-1991 

General note

MLG outside activity

 4

Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament 1987-1988 

 4

EOS Technologies 1990-1991 

General note

MLG outside activity

 4

American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1988-1990 

 4

American Institute of Physics: Advisory Committee on History of Physics 1988-1991 

 4

American Philosophical Society 1988-1990 

 4

Arms Control Association 1988-1991 

General note

MLG outside activity

 4

Aspen Institute 1988-1991 

General note

MLG outside activity

 4

Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) 1988-1989 

General note

MLG outside activity

 4

Benjamin Franklin National Memorial 1990 

 4

Associated Universities Inc. (Brookhaven) 1987-1989 

General note

MLG outside activity

 4

Brookhaven Security Clearance and Other Security Materials 1978-1988 

General note

MLG outside activity

 4

Beyond the War Foundation 1987-1990 

 4

American Nobel Committee 1988-1990 

 4

Goldberger Biography mostly undated 

 4

Goldberger Correspondence files 
Box

-A- 1988-1991 

 4

-B- 1987-1991 

 4

-C- 1987-1991 

 4

Calendars - Goldberger (old) 1987-1990 

 4

Chen, Ze-Yu 1989-1990 

 4

-D- 1989-1991 

 4

Director's Office Expenses (does not include Goldberger's travel - in separate file) 1987-1988 

 4

Goldberger - Current Travel Expenditures 1988 

 4
Box

1988 

 4

1987 1986-1988 

 4

-E- 1987-1991 

 4

-F- 1988-1991 

 4

Foreign Travel: Goldberger 1989-1990 

 4

-G- 1987-1991 

 4

Goldberger: UCLA 1991 

 5

Goldberger and Ikavalko vs. Hansen 1987 

 5

Hill - Patent Enforcement 1990-1991 

 5

-H- 1987-1991 

 5

Haskel International 1987-1991 

 5

-I- 1987-1991 

 5

International Technology Corporation 

 5

-J- 1987-1989 

 5

-K- 1988-1991 

 5

-L- 1987-1991 

 5

-M- 1987-1991 

 5

-N- 1989-1990 

 5

-O- 1987-1991 

 5

Olden Farm 1987-1989 

 5

Polyakov, Alexandre 1989 

 5

-P- 1988-1991 

 5

-R- 1987-1990 

 5

-S- 1987-1991 

 5

Smithsonian: National Air and Space Museum 1989 

 5

Starr Colloquium 1990 
Box

-T- 1987-1990 

 5

-U, V- 1987-1989 

 5

-W, X, Y, Z- 1987-1991 

 5

Voronov, Dr. Alexander 1990 

 5

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