Joseph Irwin Goldstein (January 6, 1939 – June 27, 2015) was an American

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and

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who Invention, invent, design, build, maintain and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials. They aim to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while ...

, working mainly in the fields of

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and

mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines and mechanism (engineering), mechanisms that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and engineering mathematics, mathematics principl ...

. He was a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and emeritus Dean of Engineering at the

University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) is a public land-grant research university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system and was founded in 1863 as the ...

. His research into the nature of outer-space materials led to the naming of an

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after him in 2000, 4989 Joegoldstein. His early research was at

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of modern technology and sc ...

, where he received a B.S. in 1960, an S.M. in 1962 and an Sc.D. in 1964. From 1964 to 1983, Goldstein was a professor of Materials Science and Engineering at

Lehigh University Lehigh University (LU), in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States, is a private university, private research university. The university was established in 1865 by businessman Asa Packer. Lehigh University's undergraduate programs have been mixed ...

. During a sabbatical year in 1975, Goldstein discovered that analytical electron microscopy could resolve the solute profiles in synthetic meteoritic materials. He used the technique of AEM to supplement his extensive Scanning Electron Microscopy techniques. He initiated the Lehigh University Summer Microscopy School in 1970 and these continue today, teaching both SEM and AEM microprobe techniques. Goldstein was the lead author, in collaboration with several fellow LUSMS faculty members, of four editions of ''Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-Ray Microanalysis''. The text is used worldwide in electron microscopy seminars and graduate courses. In 1983, Goldstein became Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research at Lehigh. In 1990, Goldstein moved to UMass to become Dean of Engineering, a position he held until 2004. In 1999 he received the

Henry Clifton Sorby Henry Clifton Sorby (10 May 1826 – 9 March 1908) was an English amateur microscopist and geologist. His major contribution was the development of techniques for thin sectioning of rocks and minerals with polarized light under a microscope whi ...

Award of the International Metallographic Society. The asteroid 4989 Joegoldstein was named after Goldstein in 2000 by Schelte J. Bus, who had discovered the asteroid in 1981 at the

Anglo-Australian Telescope The Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) is a 3.9-metre Equatorial mount, equatorially mounted telescope operated by the Australian Astronomical Observatory and situated at the Siding Spring Observatory, Australia, at an altitude of a little over 1, ...

. It was named in honor of Goldstein because of his outstanding contributions to the science of meteoritics. In 2005 he received the highest award of the Meteoritical Society, the Leonard Medal, for work on metal, phosphide, carbide, and sulphide in meteorites and lunar rocks; the formation of the Widmanstätten pattern and the determination of cooling rates in irons, stony-irons, and chondrites; the nature of plessite and martensite formation; and determinations of phase diagrams for the Fe-Ni, Fe-Ni-P, Fe-Ni-Co, Fe-Ni-C, and Fe-Ni-S systemsRubin A. (2005) Meteoritics and Planetary Science 40 Supplement PP. A5-A6.

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Joe Goldstein's faculty homepage
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