Sam Treiman [SEP] cause of death
" Treiman was awarded the Oersted medal by the American Association of Physics Teachers in 1995. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
Sam Treiman died of leukemia on November 30, 1999.
Major scientific achievements.
- 1957 (with J. David Jackson and Henry Wyld) - definitive theory of allowed beta decays, taking into account time and parity violations
- 1958 (with Marvin Goldberger) dispersion relations analysis of pion and nucleon beta decay, culminating in the
. From 1993 until his death in November, 2014, he served on the faculty of the University of California, San Diego, first as a professor of physics and then as a professor emeritus. Goldberger also served as Dean of Natural Sciences for UC San Diego from 1994 to 1999.
In 1954, he and Murray Gell-Mann introduced crossing symmetry. In 1958, he and Sam Bard Treiman published the so-called Goldberger–Treiman relation.
He was a participant in 1958's Project 137 and a member