Jack Goldman
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"Jacob "Jack" Goldman" was an United States/American physicist and former chief scientist of Xerox/Xerox Corporation. He was also a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University/Carnegie Tech and directed the Ford Scientific Laboratory. He is especially notable for hiring physicist Dr. George Pake to create the PARC (company)/Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, which produced many seminal ideas in modern computing.

Among the projects that Goldman worked on at Ford in the 1960s was the sodium–sulfur battery for electric cars.

After narrowly surviving a fiery crash of his gasoline-powered Lincoln (automobile)/Lincoln, Goldman quipped "I guess I proved gasoline is more dangerous than a sodium–sulfur battery."

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