Rubin Goldstein ’55

Rubin was the son of Rachel “Ray” Faier and Sam Goldstein. He was born March 29, 1933, in the Bronx, and raised in Brooklyn. He died Dec. 20, 2016.

Rubin came to us from Brooklyn’s Abraham Lincoln High. At Princeton he was a member of Prospect Club and played IAA sports in basketball and touch football. He majored in physics and wrote his thesis on experimental nuclear physics.

Rubin earned a Ph.D. in physics from Harvard, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He taught at University of California, Berkeley and was a research scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York and at Combustion Engineering in Connecticut. He enjoyed chess, softball, basketball, bicycling, and classical music.

Rubin is survived by his wife of 60 years, Sylvia (Galitzer) Goldstein; daughter Lori Jean Goldstein and her husband, William Carter; daughter Susan May Goldstein; daughter Pamela Joy Goldstein and her husband, Michael Gefers; brother Murray Goldstein and his wife, Esther; grandson Noah-Quinn Goldstein-Gefers; and many nieces and nephews.