| Birth Date: | May 30, 1925 |
| Birth Place: | Rochester, New York |
| Death Place: | Madison, Wisconsin |
| Nationality: | American |
| Fields: | Physics |
| Workplaces: | Armour Research Foundation Aerospace Research Laboratories, U.S. Air Force Syracuse University |
| Alma Mater: | University of Rochester Syracuse University |
| Thesis Title: | Equations of motion in a covariant field theory |
| Thesis Url: | https://www.worldcat.org/title/equations-of-motion-in-a-covariant-field-theory/oclc/862812419 |
| Thesis Year: | 1952 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Peter Bergmann |
| Known For: | General relativity |
| Spouse: | Gloria Lois Gerber Goldberg[1] |
Joshua N. Goldberg (May 30, 1925 – October 5, 2020) was an American physicist and educator who was particularly noted for his research on general relativity.[2]
Goldberg was born in Rochester, New York, and received a bachelor's degree from the University of Rochester in 1947. He received a doctorate in physics from Syracuse University in 1952.[3] His thesis advisor was Peter Bergmann.
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.
Goldberg is known for his research in general relativity, where he has written 61 papers.[4] 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.[5]
Goldberg was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1972.[6] In 2011, Goldberg's research career was honored by a special issue of the journal General Relativity and Gravitation.[7]
Goldberg died in Madison, Wisconsin, on October 5, 2020, at the age of 95.[8]