Sheldon Goldstein

Sheldon Goldstein (born October 24, 1947, in Augusta, Georgia) is an American theoretical physicist. He introduced the term "Bohmian mechanics".

Biography

Goldstein graduated from Yeshiva University with a B.A. in 1969, a B.S. in 1971, and a Ph.D. in physics in 1973. His Ph.D. thesis, supervised by Joel Lebowitz, is entitled Ergodic Theory and Infinite Systems Since 1977 Goldstein has been a professor at Rutgers University. His research deals with the foundations of quantum mechanics and, especially, theoretical developments of De Broglie–Bohm theory. His collaborators include Joel Lebowitz and Detlef Dürr. In a 1981 paper, Goldstein and Oliver Penrose described a new method of defining nonequilibrium entropy in statistical mechanics. Goldstein contributed the article Bohmian Mechanics to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

For two academic years from 1973 to 1975, Goldstein was at the Institute for Advanced Study. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a member of the board of governors of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics (founded by Tim Maudlin).

Sheldon Goldstein and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, a novelist and philosopher, were married from 1969 to 1999, until they divorced. They are the parents of the novelist Yael Goldstein Love and the poet Danielle Blau.

Selected publications

• (4 letters independently written by 4 different authors with a reply from Griffiths and Omnès)