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Maurice Goldhaber
American physicist
1911 – 2011aged 100
A physicist who directed Brookhaven National Laboratory and discovered that the deuteron is composed of a neutron and a proton, providing the first accurate measurement of the neutron's mass. He later devised the Goldhaber experiment, which established that neutrinos carry negative helicity, a key result in understanding weak nuclear interactions.