Joshua N. Goldberg

From 1952–1956 Goldberg was a research scientist at the Armour Research Foundation. He then worked at the Aerospace Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, where over seven years he built a research group working on relativity. In 1963 Goldberg became a professor of physics at Syracuse University, where he was an emeritus professor of physics.^[6]

Goldberg is known for his research in general relativity, where he has written 61 papers.^[6] He and Rainer K. Sachs published the Goldberg-Sachs Theorem in 1962. Along with Bergmann, Goldberg introduced a new derivation of the laws of motion of rigid bodies according to the rigorous approach that they had developed.^[7]

Goldberg was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1972.^[3] In 2011, Goldberg's research career was honored by a special issue of the journal General Relativity and Gravitation.^[4]

Goldberg died in Madison, Wisconsin, on October 5, 2020, at the age of 95.^[2][8]