Allen Marshall Goldman (born October 18, 1937, in the Bronx, New York City)[1] is an American experimental condensed matter physicist, known for his research on electronic transport properties of superconductors[2] and for the eponymous Carlson-Goldman mode involving collective oscillations in superconductors.
[3][4] Goldman graduated in 1954 from the Bronx High School of Science and received in 1958 his bachelor's degree in physics and chemistry from Harvard University.
[5] His Ph.D. thesis Properties of superconductors and selected magnetic materials in the configuration of thin films was supervised by William M.
[8] Goldman is known for his experiments involving "superconductivity, in the configuration of thin films, with an emphasis on the effects of disorder and dimensional constraints.
In the 1970s he discovered, with his doctoral student Richard V. Carlson,[9] collective oscillations (Carlson-Goldman modes) in thin superconducting films.