Career
He was also a faculty member at Carnegie Technical and directed the Ford Scientific Laboratory. He is especially notable for hiring physicist Doctor George Pake to create the 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, Goldman quipped "I guess I proved gasoline is more dangerous than a sodium–sulfur battery."
Jack Goldman died from congestive heart failure on December 20, 2011.