the Vol. B55 - No. 26 ulletin August 10, 2001 BNLBNL CelebratesCelebrates MauriceMaurice Goldhaber’sGoldhaber’s 90th90th YearYear he secret of Maurice Goldhaber’s activity at Several hundred friends and members T90, he says, is very simple: “I have no time to of the BNL community attended the af- age.” ternoon symposium (see inside). At a re- The age of BNL Distinguished Scientist Emeri- ception afterward, refreshments and tus Maurice Goldhaber, however, was the reason more reminiscences of Goldhaber’s that Brookhaven Lab took time to celebrate, at a science, wit, and elegance flowed. symposium, reception, and dinner held in Approximately 160 of Gold- Goldhaber’s honor at Berkner Hall on July 26. haber’s family, friends, and col- Goldhaber, who continues his research inter- leagues then attended a dinner ests at BNL, joined BNL’s Physics Department in at which BNL Director John 1950, became Physics Chair from 1960 to 1961, Marburger spoke of Goldhaber’s and served as the third Laboratory Director from timelessness, humor, produc- 1961 to 1973. His numerous honors include the tivity, and intellectual insights. 1971 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics, the “What Brookhaven is today 1982 J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize, the really bears Maurice’s stamp,” 1983 National Medal of Science, the 1991 Wolf Prize Marburger said. in Physics, and the 1999 Award. (continued on page 2)

RHIC Update Save the Date: September 11 Marburger Celebration Party Set PHOBOS Presents First Full-Energy Physics Results All employees, facility users, and guests are invited to ust two weeks after achieving ther experimental tests and Also, measurements made on attend a party sponsored by BSA for Laboratory Director Jfull-energy collisions at the comparisons will be needed to earlier collisions this year at 130 John Marburger, on Tuesday, September 11, from 4 to 7 Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider see which theory provides the GeV correlated well with those p.m., at Berkner Hall. Refreshments and entertainment will (RHIC), the PHOBOS collabora- best fit with this and other at the same energy last year. This be provided. tion announced the first full- RHIC findings. Those experi- shows that the PHOBOS detec- A Senate confirmation hearing will be scheduled later energy physics results to a stand- ments and analyses will take tor is working as expected, and this fall for Marburger, who was selected by President ing-room-only crowd in the place as the current run pro- makes it fair to compare the George W. Bush for nomination as Assistant to the Presi- Physics Department’s large semi- ceeds. new numbers from 200 GeV col- dent for Science & Technology Policy. Marburger will con- nar room. “It is exciting that we are cre- lisions with the lower-energy tinue to serve as Lab Director until the confirmation pro- The key finding, presented by ating these extremely high en- events last year. cess is completed. Gunther Roland of the Massa- ergy densities — the highest pro- The analysis was made by chusetts Institute of Technology duced in the laboratory — and looking at only the most central, (MIT), was a moderate increase equal to those that existed in the head-on collisions — 639 events. RHIC & AGS Users Meet Today in energy density in these full- early universe,” said Wit Busza, “That may not sound like a lot, The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and Alter- energy collisions — which take spokesperson for the PHOBOS but it’s ten times as many events nating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) Annual Users’ Meet- place at a center of mass energy collaboration. as we used in our first publica- ing which started yesterday, Thursday, August 9, contin- of 200 billion volts The energy density was esti- tion last year,” Roland said. ues today in Berkner Hall. (GeV) per nucleon pair — com- mated based on the number of Busza, who is also from MIT, Topics being covered are: RHIC experiments and theory, pared with last year’s collisions particles produced in the colli- credited the entire Collider- RHIC experiments in review, a poster session, and a Users’ at lower energy (130 GeV per sions. The PHOBOS team used Accelerator Department and Group business meeting. nucleon pair). four different methods to mea- BNL as a whole for the quick pro- For more information, contact the RHIC & AGS Users’ That result fits with predic- sure the production of particles, duction of exciting physics, say- Center at [email protected], Ext. 5975, or visit www.bnl. tions made by several theories and all four agreed with one an- ing, “Without you all, none of gov/userscenter/. of what should happen as en- other, lending validity and reli- this would have been possible.” ergies increase. However, fur- ability to the result. — Karen McNulty Walsh The Bulletin August 10, 2001

Calendar of Laboratory Events BNLBNL CelebratesCelebrates Goldhaber’sGoldhaber’s • The BERA Sales Office is located in Berkner Hall and is open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information on BERA events, contact Andrea Dehler, Ext. 3347; or M. Kay Dellimore, Ext. 2873. • Additional information for Hospitality Committee events can be found at the Lollipop House and the laundry in the apartment area. D0110701 • The Recreation Building (Rec. Bldg.) is located in the apartment area. • Contact names are provided for most events for more information. D0150701 • Calendar events flagged with an asterisk (*) have an accompanying story in this week’s Bulletin. — EACH WEEK — Goldhaber’s 90th (cont’d.) Mondays: Arts & Crafts Also at the dinner, Gold- 4-5 p.m. Rec. Bldg. $5 per haber’s sons Michael and month covers materials. Alfred, and grandson David, D0200701 Marcia Leite, Ext. 1040. paid tribute to their father and — Hospitality event grandfather, respectively. Mar- Tuesdays: Welcome Coffee burger read a letter from Peter 10-11:30 a.m. Rec. Bldg. New- Rosen, DOE Associate Director comers meet friends. Mimi Luccio, 821-1435. for High Energy & Nuclear — Hospitality event Physics, who was unable to at- Tuesdays: Yoga Practice Sessions tend, and presented Goldhaber 12-1 p.m., Brookhaven Ctr. with a DOE plaque in honor of North Room. Free. Ila Campbell, his many extraordinary contri- Ext. 2206. butions to science and to BNL. D0240701 Wednesdays: BNL Ballroom, In his thank-you speech, D0170701 Latin & Swing Dance Club: D0210701 Goldhaber commented that be- beginner to advanced lessons ing toasted in the afternoon and evening “makes for a warm Register now for series 1 of the 10th anniversary 2001-02 sea- feeling.” In referring to Bill son, which starts on Wednes- Marciano’s afternoon talk on day, September 12 in the decay research, Gold- North Ballroom, Brookhaven Center. Marsha Belford, belf haber recalled one of his own [email protected] or Ext. 5053; “Goldhaberisms” on the pro- Ron Ondrovic, ondrovic@ ton: “May it live forever — but D0260701 bnl.gov or Ext. 4553; Sue if it dies, let it die in our arms.” Perino, [email protected] or D0300701 Ext. 2483. More seriously, he gave this ad-

D0160701 vice to the young: “Listen to Wednesdays: Cooking Exchange your inner voice, and do not 5-6 p.m. Rec. Bldg. $1 per evening covers the cost of ingre- run with the crowd.” dients. Marcia Leite, Ext. 1040. By listening to his inner Wednesdays: On-Site Play Group voice, Goldhaber has produced Now Meets at Playground research contributions in the 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Play- fields of nuclear physics and ground in Apt. area, weather fundamental particles that permitting. Parents meet while cover experiment, systematics, D0270701 children play. Bring drinks, snacks. Free. Monique de la technique, and theory. Some of Beij, 399-7656. Lisa Fugleberg, D0190701 the research in which he has 205-5128. — Hospitality event. participated includes: the dis- D0130701 Wednesdays: Weight Watchers covery of the nuclear photo-ef- noon-1 p.m., Brookhaven fect, the role of spin in nuclear Center South Room, Mary reactions, making the first ac- Wood, Ext. 5923. curate measurement of the Mon., & Thurs.: Cardio Kickboxing mass of the , observing $5 per class. Mon. & Thurs. the helicity of the , from noon-1 p.m. in the Gym. Thursday evenings from 5:15 and pursuing a wide variety of

to 6:15 p.m. in the Brookhaven physics research that has sup- D0230701 Ctr. Registration is required. ported the standard model. Contact, Mary Wood, Ext.

5923, or [email protected]. D0280701 Goldhaber is a member of the National Academy of Sci- D0310701 ences and a fellow of the Ameri- — THIS WEEKEND — can Academy of Arts & Sci- ences, the American Associa- Friday, 8/10 tion for the Advancement of GLOBE Meeting Science, and the American D0320701 For more information about Physical Society, of which he

BNL’s gay and lesbian club, D0120701 was president in 1982. and the location of this — Liz Seubert month’s meeting, contact Mike Loftus, Ext. 2960, or Chris Gardner, Ext. 4537. BERA Summer Bash 6 p.m., Rock Hill Country Club in Manorville. $15 per person includes hot buffet from 7- 8:30 p.m., DJ, and cash bar. Contact Andrea Dehler, Ext. 3347; John McCaffrey, Ext. 2075; Lou Nieves, Ext. 4897; or Laurie Pearl, Ext. 5520. – NEXT WEEK — All Week: Food Drive Can you spare a can? Give to the BNL food drive in the bins CN7-190-01 in each building. D0140701 The Bulletin August 10, 2001

Calendar 90th Year (continued) (Right) From the Tuesday, 8/14 Director’s Office: (seated) Maurice Verizon Wireless Demo Goldhaber, BNL From 11 a.m to 2 p.m. a repre- Director 1961- sentative will be in Berkner Hall 1963; John presenting BNLers with special Marburger, rates on wireless service. present BNL Director; (stand- Wednesday, 8/15 ing) Nicholas Samios, BNL Voicestream Wireless Demo Director 1982- 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Berkner Hall. 1997, and Peter A representative will present BNLers with special rates on Bond, BNL A Symposium CN7-197-01 Voicestream wireless network. Interim Director, Richard Goll, (516) 343-5900. 1997-1998. To Remember

Maurice Goldhaber (center) is seen with symposium speakers: (from left) Divorced & Separated (Below) Six Martin Deutsch, Bill Marciano, Norman Ramsey, and Stuart Freedman. Support Group former BNL noon-1 p.m., Berkner Hall, Physics Depart- he two sessions of the symposium held for Maurice Goldhaber Room D. Mary Campbell, Ext. ment Chairmen: T were chaired respectively by Peter Bond, Special Assistant to 4776, [email protected]. (front, from left) the Director and former BNL Interim Director; and Martin Blume, Norman Ramsey, Editor-in-Chief, American Physical Society, and former BNL Deputy Thursday, 8/16 Maurice Director. The afternoon’s topics included: a welcome and presenta- Goldhaber, tion of the first Goldhaber fellowships (see below) by BNL Director Joseph Weneser, Brookhaven Advocacy (back, from left) John Marburger; “My Many Memories of Maurice,” by Norman Council Meeting Peter Bond, CN7-191-01 Ramsey, Harvard University and BNL’s first Physics Department Open Session, 12:30-1 p.m., Nicholas Samios, Chair; “Reminiscences of Time and Reversals,” by Stuart Freedman, Berkner Hall, Room C. Nancy and Ronald Rau. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; “Maurice in My Past,” by Warren, Ext. 7548. Martin Deutsch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and (Photographs on these pages are by Roger Stoutenburgh.) BERA Bridge Club “Proton Decay,” by Bill Marciano, BNL, Physics. 7 p.m., Berkner Hall cafeteria By arrangement, many attendees, including Goldhaber’s brother Morris Strongson, Ext. 4192, Gerson, told “Maurice” stories, describing many facets of this re- [email protected]. spected, admired, and loved , Laboratory Director, and Renaissance man. Friday - Sunday, 8/17-19 Balloon & Music Festival BERA offers discounted tickets for the Waldbaum’s Balloon & Music Festival at Calabro Air- port. Tickets available in the BERA Sales Office, weekdays, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Andrea Dehler, Ext. 3347, or M. Kay Dellimore, Ext. 2873. Saturday, 8/18 Foxwoods Casino Trip

CN7-193-01 Bus leaves Brookhaven Cen- D0180701 ter at 8:15 a.m. and returns at approximately 8:15 p.m. $39 per person includes bus, SeaJet Ferry, $10 food voucher, two free Keno plays, and a $10 match table play. BNL Creates Gertrude, Maurice Goldhaber Fellowships Pre-paid reservations can be made at the BERA Sales Of- fice, weekdays, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. t BNL’s celebration of the may qualify for Lab scientific • Elena Lymar, a biologist, per- staff physicist at DESY, Ham- A 90th year of Distinguished staff positions after completing forms structural and functional burg, Surrow was a CERN, Swit- BNL Scientist Maurice Gold- the appointment. analysis of human DNA. She is zerland, fellow and has a Ph.D. — WEEK OF 8/20 — haber, the first Gertrude and The first four recipients of the a postdoctoral associate at the from the University of Hamburg, Maurice Goldhaber Distin- fellowships are: Rockefeller University, with a Germany. He has studied elec- Wednesday, 8/22 guished Postdoctoral Fellow- • Young-June Kim, a physicist, Ph.D. from Washington State tron-proton scattering to map ships were awarded by Labora- will do research in condensed- University. Lymar’s research fo- the proton’s structure from the Apheresis Blood Drive tory Director John Marburger to matter physics using the Na- cuses on structural and func- hard, high-resolution scattering Brookhaven Center. BNL vol- Young-June Kim, Elena Lymar, tional Synchrotron Light Source. tional analysis of the human region to the soft scattering re- unteers from the previous Bernd Surrow, and Hua Gen Yu. He is a post-doc at the Massachu- DNA double-strand break repair gion, using a device he designed apheresis drive are sched- uled to donate platelets. Sue “These fellowships were cre- setts Institute of Technology, machanism. Her aim is to char- and built. He also developed a Foster, Ext. 2888, or foster2 ated to continue Brookhaven’s with a Ph.D. from Harvard Uni- acterize the complex formed by detector to study photon struc- @bnl.gov. tradition of attracting the best versity. With John Hill, Physics DNA-end activated protein ki- ture in electron-positron colli- and brightest scientists. There Department, as his mentor, Kim nase, which plays a central role sions at LEP at CERN. Surrow Noon Recital can be no better way to com- will study the behavior of elec- in DNA repair. Lymar’s BNL will study the spin structure of The Daedalus String Quartet memorate the impact of Maurice trons and their correlations in mentor is Carl Anderson, Biol- the proton at the Relativistic will perform at noon in Berkner Hall. Noon recitals and Gertrude Goldhaber on complex materials such as high- ogy Department Chair. Heavy Ion Collider using the are free and open to the pub- BNL,” said Marburger. temperature superconductors • Bernd Surrow, a physicist, is STAR detector. Surrow’s BNL lic. Bring your lunch and Administered by Leonard and colossal magnetoresistance interested in the study of proton mentor is Gerry Bunce, Physics come and go as you please. Newman, Scientific Director, compounds. measurements and structure. A Department. For more information, see www.music.bnl.gov. Laboratory Directed Research & • Hua Gen Yu, a chemist, stud- Development, the fellowships ies quantum theory and dynam- are funded by Battelle and Stony ics. He was an associate profes- — WEEK OF 8/27 — Brook University. sor with the Chinese Academy of The fellowships are open to Sciences, China. His Ph.D. is from Monday, 8/27 scientists who are a maximum Goteborg University, Sweden. of three years past receiving their Yu’s interests include developing IBEW Meeting Ph.D. Candidates must have a new techniques to extend the strong desire for independent application of quantum scatter- frontier research within the mis- ing methods to complex reac- Note: This calendar is updated sions of BNL: the advancement tions; exploring the dynamics of continuously and will appear in the of physics, chemistry, biology, Bulletin whenever space permits. reactions involving multiple Submissions must be received by the and medical, energy, or environ- electronic states and the role of preceding Friday at noon to appear in the

mental sciences; or the use of CN7-198-01 non-adiabatic processes in reac- following week’s Bulletin. Please enter the facilities that accelerate particles tion or spectroscopy; determin- information for each event in the order or heavy ions or produce syn- ing the structure and energetics listed above (date, event name, description, and cost) and send it to chrotron light. of reaction species and investi- Pictured are: (back, from left) Scientific Director, Laboratory Directed Re- [email protected]. Write “Bulletin The three-year fellowships search & Development Leonard Newman, BNL Director John Marburger, gating chemical reactivity in Calendar” in the subject line. have a starting salary of $65,000 Goldhaber Fellow Young-June Kim, BNL Deputy Director for Science & quantum mechanical detail. His per annum. Each fellow will col- Technology Peter Paul; (front from left) Goldhaber Fellow Hua Gen Yu, mentor is James Muckerman, laborate closely with a member BNL Distinguished Scientist Maurice Goldhaber; and Goldhaber Fellow Chemistry Department. of the BNL scientific staff and Elena Lymar. Not present: Goldhaber Fellow Bernd Surrow. — Liz Seubert AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY HEAD OPEN RECRUITMENT - Opportunities for Retirement OF MEDIA RELATIONS - The American Laboratory employees and outside candidates. Physical Society seeks a media relations MK2217. POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH Counseling professional to promote physics in the popu- ASSOCIATES (2 positions) - Requires a lar media. 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