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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. Life and career. Goudsmit was born in The Hague, Netherlands, of Dutch Jewish descent.
Nov 2, 2018 · Samuel Goudsmit at a dinner at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor around the 1930s. Credit: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. Sam Goudsmit and the Hunt for Hitler’s Atom Bomb Martijn Van ...
Jul 7, 2024 · Samuel Abraham Goudsmit was a Dutch-born U.S. physicist who, with George E. Uhlenbeck (q.v.), a fellow graduate student at the University of Leiden, Neth., formulated (1925) the concept of electron spin, leading to major changes in atomic theory and quantum mechanics. Of this work Isidor I. Rabi, a
The golden jubilee of the Dutch Physical Society in April 1971 was concluded with a lecture by Samuel Goudsmit on the history of the discovery of the electron spin. Actually, his could hardly be called a polished lecture; it was a grandiose artistic performance, full of wit and emotional involvement. Goudsmit, then at the end of his scientific career, gave a very personal account of how chance and the guidance by Ehrenfest, their far-sighted supervisor, led him and Uhlenbeck to formulate ...
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…
Jun 30, 2008 · Samuel Goudsmit in 1952. Photo courtesy of Brookhaven National Laboratory. Before founding PRL, Sam was already a famous physicist. He was born in the Hague, Holland in 1902. His career in physics began in 1921 as a graduate student of the renowned Leiden physicist and teacher Paul Ehrenfest. By 1925, Goudsmit had already published ten papers in Dutch, German, and English journals.
Samuel A. Goudsmit, 1902-1978 On 4 December 1978 the world of physics lost one of its most unusual and interesting members when Professor Samuel A. Goudsmit died of a heart attack on the campus of ...
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 other contributions to the field of theoretical physics during his life long career, the electron spin discovery was apparently the most important and most significant. ...
Samuel Goudsmit is widely known as the co-discoverer of electron spin, as the leader of the Alsos mission to Europe in the closing months of World War II, and as the founder and first editor of Physical Review Letters. These three achievements reflect three facets of a long career encompassing fundamental contributions to physics, service to the nation, and service to is fellow physicists worldwide. ...
Samuel A. Goudsmit was a leader in the field of physics and helped discover electron spin, a groundbreaking 1925 revelation involving angular momentum of subatomic particles. Goudsmit, from The Hague in the Netherlands, was first enchanted by physics reading about spectroscopy in a his older sister’s textbook. Spectroscopy is the science of light absorption and emission by matter to learn about radiation, and more recently it has established a greater understanding of the interactions ...
