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Samuel Goudsmit portrait, circa 1940. Samuel Abraham Goudsmit (July 11, 1902 – December 4, 1978) was a Dutch-American physicist famous for jointly proposing the concept of electron spin with George Eugene Uhlenbeck in 1925. [3] [4]
Samuel Goudsmit (1902-1978) was a Dutch-American physicist.In May 1944, Goudsmit became scientific director of the Manhattan Project's Alsos Mission, a top-secret operation responsible for gathering intelligence on Germany's atomic program. The mission investigated German scientists' progress toward nuclear weapons as the Allies liberated the European continent. While in Europe, he traveled…
Nov 2, 2018 · Sam Goudsmit and the Hunt for Hitler’s Atom Bomb Martijn Van Calmthout Prometheus (2018) In 1945, four months after the end of the Second World War in Europe, a 40-something man drove a US Army ...
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Jun 30, 2008 · Essay: Samuel Abraham Goudsmit (1902–1978) Benjamin Bederson *. (Received 13 June 2008; published 30 June 2008) When Sam Goudsmit was 23, he and George Uhlenbeck hypothesized that the electron had spin. Sam was a well-known atomic physicist working at the University of Michigan when World War II began. During the war he first worked on radar ...
Samuel Abraham Goudsmit [1902-1978] Samuel Goudsmit, together with George E. Uhlenbeck, discovered electron spin in 1925, when both were still doctoral students at the Universities of Leiden and Amsterdam in the Netherlands. This discovery was a significant contribution to the theory of theoretical physics. Although Goudsmit made significant ...
Samuel A. Goudsmit papers. These papers document the career of Samuel A. Goudsmit, who served on the physics faculty at University of Michigan, and on the staff of Brookhaven National Laboratory. Goudsmit also served as head of the ALSOS mission, an American scientific intelligence combat unit whose main objective was to determine German ...
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Samuel A. Goudsmit papers, 1928-1932. Library. American Philosophical Society. 105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA. Samuel A. Goudsmit papers. Museum of Jewish Heritage. 342 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10173, USA. Samuel and Irene Goudsmit collection, 1862-1944. Leo Baeck Institute at the Center for Jewish History
