Gerson Goldhaber is Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, doing work in elementary particle physics and particle astrophysics. Professor of Physics Emeritus (1991), Professor in the Graduate School (1994). M.Sc degree in 1947, Hebrew University in Jerusalem; Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1950. 1950 to 1953 instructor at Columbia University in New York. He came to the University of California at Berkeley in 1953, just at the start of the operation of the Bevatron. Research Professor at the Miller Institute for basic research 1957-58, 1975-76, 1984-85; 1960-61 Ford Foundation Fellow at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. From 1962-91 he was Group Leader heading a group in experimental Particle Physics jointly with George Trilling at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In 1990 he teamed up with Saul Perlmutter at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for work on supernovae to study the fate of the Universe. Invited lecturer at: Hawaii Topical Conference on Particle Physics in 1967, 1977, and 1985; CERN School at Rattvik, Sweden, 1967; Erice in 1971 and 1994; the Finnish Summer School in Ekenas, Finland, 1974. Honors: Guggenheim Fellow at CERN in 1972-73; Fellow of the American Physical Society; elected member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1977; appointed Morris Loeb Lecturer in Physics, Harvard University, 1976-77; California Scientist of the Year award, 1977, for his work on charmed mesons; elected as a foreign member of the Swedish Royal Academy, 1982; received a Ph.D. Honoris Causa from the University of Stockholm, Sweden, 1986 in recognition of his research in particle physics; received the Panofsky prize of the American Physical Society, 1991, in recognition of his discovery of charmed mesons.