Marvin Leonard "Murph" Goldberger (October 22, 1922 – November 26, 2014) was an American theoretical physicist and former president of the California Institute of Technology.

[3][4] While serving in the Army shortly after graduation, he was assigned to the Manhattan Project, where he worked under renowned physicist Enrico Fermi from 1943–45.

He received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics in 1961,[7] and in 1963 was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

He also advised a number of major corporations; for example he was on the board of directors of General Motors for 12 years.

[14] Several of his doctoral students were elected Fellows of the American Physical Society: Allan N. Kaufman in 1962, Cyrus D. Cantrell in 1980, and Martin B. Einhorn in 1991.