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Friday, December 20, 2013

Jack Goldman, American physicist, chief scientist at Xerox Corporation, died he was 90.

Jacob "Jack" Goldman  was an American physicist and former chief scientist of Xerox Corporation died he was 90.. 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. 
(Brooklyn, New York,[1] July 18, 1921 – Westport, Connecticut, December 20, 2011[2])
Among the projects that Goldman worked on at Ford in the 1960s was the sodium–sulfur battery for electric cars.[3] 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."[4]
Jack Goldman died from congestive heart failure[5] on December 20, 2011.


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