Maurice Goldhaber, who headed the Brookhaven National Laboratory and contributed to sciences basic understanding of how the universe works with the subatomic particles called neutrinos, died May 11 at 100. Goldhaber officially retired in 1985 but went to Brookhaven regularly until 2008.
Goldhaber made numerous significant contributions that helped to establish parts of the theory of subatomic physics now known as the standard model, Brookhaven said in a tribute.
