Joshua N. Goldberg Papers
An inventory of his papers at the Syracuse University Archives
Finding aid created by: Halsey Van Allen
Date: 2023
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Finding aid created by: Halsey Van Allen
Date: 2023
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| Creator: | Goldberg, Joshua N., 1925-2020 |
| Title: | Joshua N. Goldberg Papers |
| Dates: | 1947-2016 |
| Size: | 5.5 linear feet (7 boxes and 1 filing cabinet drawer) |
| Abstract: | Physics research and writings by Joshua N. Goldberg |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
University Archives, Special Collections Research Center Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Ave., Suite 600 Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 |
Joshua Norman Goldberg (1925-2020) was a professor of physics at Syracuse University. He joined the faculty in 1963 and retired from teaching in 1995 as professor emeritus. Goldberg received his bachelor's degree from the University of Rochester in 1947. He attended Syracuse University for graduate school, earning his master's degree in 1950 and his PhD in 1952. His thesis advisor and lifelong friend was Peter G. Bergmann, who worked with Albert Einstein. Before teaching at Syracuse University, Goldberg was a research scientist for ten years at the Armour Research Foundation in the private sector and the Aerospace Research Laboratory as part of the Air Force. Goldberg is known for his research in general relativity, most notably the Goldberg-Sachs Theorem in 1962.
The Joshua N. Goldberg Papers contains four series related to Goldberg's work in the field of physics and his career at Syracuse University. His primary research area was general relativity.
The Correspondence-subject files series includes primarily professional correspondence with other scientists researching general relativity, as well as Syracuse University colleagues. Additionally, this series contains records documenting his teaching and research work at Syracuse University, a campaign to honor long-time chairman of the Physics Department William Fredrickson, and organization efforts to memorialize his mentor and friend Peter G. Bergmann.
The Notes and research series contains notebooks and loose notes comprising Goldberg's data and research.
The Photographs series contains photographs and negatives depicting Physics Department events including dinners, parties, and outreach events. Those photographed include faculty, students, and visiting scientists.
The Writings series contains Goldberg's body of written work published over the course of his career. These include papers co-written with long-term collaborators such as Ezra T. Newman, Peter G. Bergmann, Roger Penrose, and Roy Kerr, most of whom were associated with Syracuse University at some point as either students or teachers. Additionally, this series includes the paper for which Goldberg is most well known, "A theorem on Petrov types", which he wrote with Rainer K. Sachs.
Access Restrictions:
Please note that the collection is housed off-site, and advance notice is required to allow time to have the materials brought to the Reading Room on campus.
Use Restrictions:
Written permission must be obtained from the Syracuse University Archives and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
Photographs of Peter G. Bergmann were removed and added to the Syracuse University Portrait Collection file on him.
Names
Bergmann, Peter Gabriel.
Fredrickson, William R.
Goldberg, Joshua N.
Syracuse University -- History.
Syracuse University.
Subjects
General relativity (Physics)
Physics -- Research.
College teachers.
Higher education.
Types of Material
Correspondence.
Manuscripts for publication.
Negatives (photographs)
Notebooks.
Photographs.
Research notes.
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Joshua N. Goldberg Papers,
University Archives,
Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
Gift of Miriam Goldberg in 2021.
Processing Information
Items were placed in acid-free folders and boxes.
Materials are arranged alphabetically.
Correspondence-subject files
Notes and research
Photographs
Writings
| Correspondence-subject files | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Anderson, James 1975, 2005 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | ARL 1988 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Ashtekar, Abhay 1979-1988 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Berbeco, Ross Isaac 2000-2002 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Bergmann, Peter 1957-2004 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Biographical information undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Chandrasekhar, S 1970, 1985 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Clippings undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Ellis, George 1985-1986 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Fredrickson sculpture 1988 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | General correspondence 1959-2011 (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | General correspondence 1959-2011 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Glass, Edward 1969-1992 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Grischuk, Leonid 1991-1992 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Havas, Peter 1968-2003 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Klotz, Frederick 1970-1975 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Lewandowski, Jerzy 1990-1992 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Magnon, Anne 1986-1992 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Newman, Ezra Theodore "Ted" 1964-2011 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Newman, Ezra Theodore "Ted" 1974 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Novak, Stephanie 1974-1981 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Penrose, Roger 1975-1989 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Robinson, David 1969-1996 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Silaban, Pantur 1970-1981 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Syracuse University biographical and professional records 1947-1993 (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Trautman, Andrzej 1983-1996 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Weber, Joseph 1959-1985 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Wheeler, John 1969-1993 | ||||||||||
| Notes and research | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | Loose notes 2000-2001, 2014-2016, undated (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Notebook 1999-2001 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Notebook circa 2004 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Notebook 2007, 2011 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Notebook circa 2013-2014 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Notebook undated (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Photographs | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | High school visit 2009 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Physics department dinner 1991 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | [Unidentified event], mostly fall 1987 1987 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Unidentified photographs undated (5 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Welcome relativists undated | ||||||||||
| Writings | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | Algebraic coordinate conditions 1983-1984 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Approach to the non-linear gravitation 1980-1981 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Asymptomatic invariants in gravitational radiation fields 1963 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Asymptomatic properties of the electromagnetic field 1964 - Co-written with R. P. Kerr | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Asymptomatic properties of the electromagnetic field notes circa 1964 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Canonical formalism on a null surface: the scalar and the electromagnetic fields 1985 - Co-written with R. Nagarajan | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Canonical general relativity on a null surface with coordinate and gauge fixing 1995 - Co-written with C. Soteriou | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Canonical quantization 1974-1975 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Comments on gravitational radiation damping and energy loss in binary systems 1976 - Co-written with Peter Havas | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Conformal properties of nonpeeling vacuum space-times 1982 - Co-written with Stephanie Novak | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Conservation equations and equations of motion in the null formalism 1974 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Conservation of the Newman-Penrose conserved quantities 1972 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Conservation laws and equations of motion 1959 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Conservation laws in electromagnetism undated | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Conservation laws in general relativity 1958 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Conservation laws in general relativity draft 1958 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Conserved quantities at spatial and null infinity: the Penrose potential 1990 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Constraint dynamics of particle world lines 1981 - Co-written with E. C. G. Sudarshan and N. Mukunda | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Degeneracy in loop variables 1992 - Co-written with J. Lewandowski and C. Stornaiolo | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Development and predictions 1983-1984 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | D-invariance on a null surface 1987 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Dirac brackets for general relativity on a null cone 1985 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Dynamical variables and surface integrals 1962 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Einstein spaces with four-parameter holonomy groups 1961 - Co-written with R. P. Kerr | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Einstein spaces with four-parameter holonomy groups draft 1961 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Electric resonance transitions in a tapered electric field 1953 - Co-written with John W. Trischka and Peter G. Bergmann | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Electromagnetic radiation 1966 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Equations of motion and gravitational, ARF [Armour Research Foundation] project 1955 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | The equations of motion for the Aeronautical Research Laboratory circa 1960 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Equations of motion in general relativity [1971] | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Equations of motion in the null formalism 1976 - Co-written with P. Silaban | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Generalizations of Green's theorem 1969 - Co-written with Ezra T. Newman | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Generalized Hamilton-Jacobi transformations: gauge and diffeomorphism constraints 1996 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Gravitation circa 1970 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Gravitational field in the vicinity of a null boundary circa 1995 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Gravitational radiation 1955 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Gravity and general relativity draft and notes circa 2003 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Green's theorem and invariant transformations 1968 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | A Hamiltonian approach to the strong gravity limit 1988 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | The Hamiltonian of general relativity on a null surface 1984 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | On Hamiltonian systems with first-class constraints 1991 - Co-written with Ezra T. Newman and Carlo Rovelli | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Interactions between 't Hooft-Polyakov monopoles 1978 - Co-written with Pong Soo Jang, Soo Yong Park, and Kameshwar C. Wali | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Invariant transformations and Newman-Penrose constants 1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Invariant transformations. conservation laws, and energy momentum 1980 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Limiting behavior of asymptomatically flat gravitational fields 1981 - Co-written with Stephanie Novak | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Limiting behavior of asymptomatically flat gravitational fields drafts and notes 1980 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Linearized constraints in the connection representation: Hamilton-Jacobi solution [1994] - Co-written with D.C. Robinson | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Lorentz invariant equations of motion of point masses in the general theory of relativity 1962 - Co-written with Peter Havas | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Lorentz invariant equations of motion of point masses in the general theory of relativity drafts and notes 1960-1962 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Measurement in distance 1959-1960, 1969 - Co-written with E. Newman | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Measurement in distance in general relativity 1959 - Co-written with E. Newman | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Newman-Penrose constants and their invariant transformations 1970-1972 - Co-written with Edward N. Glass | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Null cone canonical formalism 1986 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Null hypersurfaces and new variables 1992 - Co-written with D. C. Robinson and C. Soteriou | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Null surface canonical formalism 1997-1998 - Co-written with D. C. Robinson and C. Soteriou (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Observables in general relativity 1994 - Co-written with D. C. Robinson | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | The positivity conditions in general relativity 1973 - Co-written with F. S. Klotz | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Quantized self-dual Maxwell field on a null surface 1992 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Quasi-local energy 2002-2003 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Reinhold encyclopedia of physics, gravitation 1964-1982 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Relativistically interacting particles and world lines 1981 - Co-written with E. C. G. Sundarshan and N. Mukunda | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Review of introduction to the theory of relativity and the principles of modern physics 1966 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Review of the theory of space time and gravitation 1965 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Reviews published 1962-1993 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Second-class constraints 1998, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Self dual fields 1980 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Self-dual gauge fields 1979 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Self-dual gauge fields, drafts and notes 1978-1979 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Self-dual Maxwell field on a null cone 1991 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Self-dual Maxwell field on a null surface II circa 1992 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Self-dual space times and non-linear gravitation 1980 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Self-duality and null surfaces (Plebanski) undated | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Some applications of the infinitesimal-holonomy group to the Petrov classification of Einstein spaces 1961 - Co-written by R. P. Kerr | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Space-time undated | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Spin-s spherical harmonics and ð (eth) 1967 - Co-written with A. J. Macfarlane, E. T. Newman, F. Rohrlich, and E. C. G. Sudarshan | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Strong conservation laws and equations of motion in covariant field theories 1953 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Studies in gravitational theory 1973 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Surface integrals associated with the canonical formalism on a null surface circa 1985 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Syracuse: 1949-1952 circa 1999 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | A theorem on Petrov types 1962 - Co-written with R. K. Sachs | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Triad approach to the Hamilton of general relativity 1988 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Toward a quantum theory based on null coordinates undated - Co-written with Paul Broer | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Twistors: an overview undated | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | US Air Force support of general relativity 1956-1972 1992, undated | ||||||||||
| FC 2-1 | US Air Force technical report circa 1959 | ||||||||||