Sheldon Goldstein (born October 24, 1947, in Augusta, Georgia)[1] is an American theoretical physicist.
His Ph.D. thesis, supervised by Joel Lebowitz, is entitled Ergodic Theory and Infinite Systems [3] Since 1977 Goldstein has been a professor at Rutgers University.
[4] His research deals with the foundations of quantum mechanics and, especially, theoretical developments of De Broglie–Bohm theory.
[7] In a 1981 paper, Goldstein and Oliver Penrose described a new method of defining nonequilibrium entropy in statistical mechanics.
He is a member of the board of governors of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics[11] (founded by Tim Maudlin).