Eminent theoretical physicist Jeffrey Goldstone, an MIT professor emeritus, Dirac Medalist, and holder of the Department of Physics’ Cecil and Ida Green chair, died Oct. 12 at age 93. A member of the MIT physics community for 49 years, Goldstone was especially known for his influential work in quantum field theory as well as contributions to quantum optimization algorithms. Notably, he is the namesake of the Goldstone boson and the related Goldstone theorem.“Jeffrey was a giant of theoretical physics who will be long remembered and very much missed,” says Tracy Slatyer,…
