Collection inventory

Summary
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 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center/university-archives

Biography

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.

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Scope and Content Note

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.

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Restrictions

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.

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Related Material

Photographs of Peter G. Bergmann were removed and added to the Syracuse University Portrait Collection file on him.

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Administrative Information

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.

Finding Aid Information

Created by: Halsey Van Allen
Date: 2023
Revision history:

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Arrangement

Materials are arranged alphabetically.

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Inventory

	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

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