Samuel Goudsmit

Samuel Goudsmit
Samuel Goudsmit around 1928
Born
Samuel Abraham Goudsmit

(1902-07-11)July 11, 1902
The Hague, Netherlands
DiedDecember 4, 1978(1978-12-04) (aged 76)
Reno, Nevada, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Leiden (Ph.D) (1927)
Known for
Spouses
Jaantje Logher
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(m. 1927; div. 1960)​
[1][2]
Irene Bejach
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(m. 1960)​
[1][2]
Children
  • Esther Marianne Goudsmit[1][2]
AwardsNational Medal of Science (1976)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan
Doctoral studentsRobert Bacher
Formal portrait of a man in a suit.
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]

  1. ^ a b c "Biography of Document Creator Samuel Abraham Goudsmit, Samuel and Irene Goudsmit Collection, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Document Accession Number: 1995.A.0300 Duplicate 1, RG Number: RG-10.228". USHMM.org. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Archived from the original on July 4, 2021. Retrieved July 4, 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "Goudsmit, Samuel A. (Samuel Abraham), 1902-1978". AIP.org. American Institute of Physics, Physics History Network. Archived from the original on January 26, 2021. Retrieved July 4, 2021.
  3. ^ G.E. Uhlenbeck and S. Goudsmit, Naturwissenschaften 13(47) (1925) 953.
  4. ^ Goldhaber, Maurice (April 1979). "Obituary: Samuel A. Goudsmit". Physics Today. 32 (4): 71–72. Bibcode:1979PhT....32d..71G. doi:10.1063/1.2995511.