Biography:Alfred T. Goshaw

Short description: American physicist

Alfred T. Goshaw is an American physicist and professor emeritus at Duke University, known for his work in experimental elementary particle physics research in international collaborations at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Fermilab (FNAL) and CERN. His research includes measurements of the resonance structure of hadrons, studies of properties of the W and Z bosons and the tests of the Standard Model using both bubble chambers and fully electronic detectors at high-energy hadron colliders. He is recipient of High Energy and Particle Physics Prize and the fellow of American Physical Society.

Early life and education

Goshaw earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1959 and continued at the same institution for graduate study, receiving a Ph.D. in physics in 1966. He subsequently held a postdoctoral position in physics at Princeton University from 1966 to 1969.

Academic career

After his postdoctoral work, Goshaw spent four years as physicist on the staff at CERN from 1969 to 1973. He then joined the faculty of Duke University as an assistant professor of physics in 1973, becoming associate professor in 1978, full professor in 1984, and James B. Duke Professor in 2000. He continued teaching and conducting research at Duke until his retirement in 2020 when he became professor emeritus. After retirement from Duke he continues to do research at CERN with the ATLAS experiment.

Research

Goshaw’s research career spans the evolution of the Standard Model of elementary particle physics with experimental measurements in the1960’using bubble chambers to current research using large modern collider experiments