About Jack Goldman
Lived 1921 – 2011 (aged 90). Jack Goldman was an American physicist.
'''Jacob E. 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.
Among the projects that Goldman worked on at Ford in the 1960s was the sodium–sulfur battery for electric cars. 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."
Jack Goldman died from congestive heart failure on December 20, 2011.
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Who was Jack Goldman?
American physicist
When was Jack Goldman born?
Jack Goldman was born on 18 June 1921 in Brooklyn.
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Jack Goldman died on 20 December 2011 in Westport.
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Jack Goldman was a physicist.
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Jack Goldman was American.
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