Marvin Leonard Goldberger (born 22.10.1922) is an American theoretical physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1963). He was born in Chicago. He graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (1943). In 1950 — 57 he worked at the University of Chicago (professor from 1955). From 1957 he has been professor at Princeton University.
His work is in nuclear physics, the theory of collisions, quantum field theory, the theory of elementary particles and high-energy physics. In 1948 he developed a theory of the interaction of neutrons of energy ~100 MeV with heavy nuclei. Together with M. Gell-Mann and W. Thirring he developed (1954) the method of dispersion relations in quantum field theory, and with Gell-Mann (1953) one of the formulations of formal scattering theory. With Thirring he studied the scattering of mesons by nucleons in the limiting case of low meson energy, and with Gell-Mann he formulated a general theorem for meson processes with a total change of momentum. Independently of others he introduced in 1957 the relation known as “crossing symmetry”. He developed the theory of nuclear reactions at high energies on the basis of the Monte Carlo method.
The D. Heineman Prize (1961).