Poetic Obituaries: [Gerson Goldhaber] became a naturalized United States

citizen in 1953 while teaching at Columbia University. Later that year, he joined UC Berkeley's Radiation Laboratory, which is now known as the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and he spent the rest of his career there.

In 1965 on a family trip around the world, Goldhaber's wife fell into a coma in India and died. To console himself, Goldhaber took up art, eventually gravitating to painting and drawing. After he remarried in 1969 to poet and writer Judith Margoshes Golwyn, the couple collaborated on many art projects and books of poetry.

In 1977, he was named the California Scientist of the Year by the California Museum of Science and Industry.

from Los Angeles Times: Gerson Goldhaber dies at 86; particle physicist discovered 'dark energy'

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