{{Short description|American physicist (1921–2011)}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Jacob E. Goldman | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1921|7|18}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|2011|12|20|1921|7|18}} | fields = Physics | workplaces = | alma_mater = University of Pennsylvania (PhD) | doctoral_advisor = Frederick Seitz | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = Anthony Schuyler Arrott | notable_students = | known_for = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = <!--(filename only)--> | signature_alt = | footnotes = }}
'''Jacob E.<ref name=JG.Obit/> "Jack" Goldman''' (July 18, 1921 – December 20, 2011) was an American physicist and former chief scientist of Xerox Corporation.<ref name=JG.Obit>{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 21, 2011 |author=John Markoff |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/22/business/jacob-e-goldman-founder-of-xerox-lab-dies-at-90.html |title=Jacob Goldman, Founder of Xerox Lab, Dies at 90}}</ref> He was also a faculty member at Carnegie Tech and directed the Ford Scientific Laboratory. He is especially notable for hiring physicist Dr. George Pake to create the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, which produced many seminal ideas in modern computing.
Goldman was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Westport, Connecticut.<ref>{{cite web|last=Poeter |first=Damon |url=https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2397991,00.asp |title=Xerox PARC Founder Jack Goldman Dies at 90 |publisher=PC Magazine |date=December 22, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Whitney |first=Lance |url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57347067-92/xerox-parc-founder-jacob-goldman-dies-at-90/?tag=cnetRiver |title=Xerox PARC founder Jacob Goldman dies at 90 |publisher=CNET News |date=December 22, 2011 }}</ref>
Among the projects that Goldman worked on at Ford in the 1960s was the sodium–sulfur battery for electric cars.<ref> {{cite journal | journal = Public Power | title = unknown title | author = | volume = 24 | issue = | publisher = American Public Power Association | page = 28 | issn = | year = 1966 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=DEMeAQAAMAAJ&q=%22sodium-sulfur%22+goldman }}</ref> After narrowly surviving a fiery crash of his gasoline-powered Lincoln, Goldman quipped "I guess I proved gasoline is more dangerous than a sodium–sulfur battery."<ref> {{cite journal | journal = Popular Mechanics | title = Detroit listening post: Quotable quotes | author = Bob Irvin | volume = | issue = | pages = | issn = | date = Feb 1967 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=qtMDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA88-IA2 }}</ref>
Jack Goldman died from congestive heart failure<ref>[https://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/12/jacob-goldman-founder-of-xerox-parc-dies-at-90.ars Sean Gallagher (December 23, 2011) - ''ars technica'']</ref> on December 20, 2011.
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20050207161825/http://mit-forum.co.il/2000events/tenyears_eng.htm MIT Enterprise Forum biography] *[http://www.belarc.com/press_rels/pr-09221997.html Belarc biography] *[http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57347067-92/xerox-parc-founder-jacob-goldman-dies-at-90/?tag=cnetRiver Cnet News Obituary] *{{citation |last=Markhoff |first=John |title=Jacob Goldman, Founder of Xerox Lab, Dies at 90 | newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 21, 2011 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/22/business/jacob-e-goldman-founder-of-xerox-lab-dies-at-90.html}} *[https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2397991,00.asp PC Mag Obituary]
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