An Open World of Physics

Spring Picnic (Princeton 1962). Win Risk, Val Fitch, Fred Golhaber, Dave Cassel.

Fred Goldhaber became sixty years old this year (2001), and he is about to enjoy the real life. There was a celebration of this event in the form of a one-day conference followed by a banquet at Stony Brook (New York) on October 7 (2001). The title of the conference was ``An Open World of Physics.'' I went there with my wife and enjoyed seeing the happy Goldhabers and my old friends who came there.

I met Fred in 1961 when he came to Princeton from Harvard to do graduate study. He was a very young boy at that time. He is not only an outstanding physicist but also a skill to make his friends feel comfortable. His father is Maurice Goldhaber. Maurice is known as Mr. Brookhaven, but we used to call him Papa because he was like a papa to everybody.

• Three generations of the Goldhaber Dynasty. Fred and Suzan Goldhaber during their son's talk. Papa (Maurice) Goldhaber was also there watching and listening to his grandson. I know how happy Suzan was. You may be interested in seeing another mother mighty proud of her son.

• David Goldhaber-Gordon, the 3rd generation Goldhaber during the banquet with his wife and my wife. He gave a talk entitled "Interference and Spin in Quantum Dots."

• Pleasure to be with the Goldhabers. Fred introduced me to his father during the APS meeting held in New York in January of 1962. Fred gave a talk at that meeting, both Papa and Mama (Gertrude Goldhaber) were present at his talk. Since 1962, I met Maurice often while attending the APS meetings. He always encouraged me, especially during the difficult period I had to go through in my life. I was fortunate enough to have a photo with him during the historic APS Centennial meeting held in Atlanta Georgia in March of 1999.

• Suzan happy to be with Papa. Suzan has been proud of her father-in-law ever since she joined the Goldhaber family. Suzan told me Maurice never learned how to take photos. We forced him to take this picture . He failed twice in pushing the button, but succeeded at his third try with the help of Jack Smith sitting next to him. This was the first first photo taken by Maurice Goldhaber.

• Papa with MMN. Papa is Mr. Brookhaven and M. M. Nieto is of course Mr. Los Alamos.

• With the Roceks. Martin Rocek is now a bearded man.

• Suzan and Bob Shrock. Like Fred, Bob was also Sam Treiman's student at Princeton.

• George Sterman was the principal organizer of this celebration entitled "Open World of Physics." George received his PhD degree from the University of Maryland.