Samuel Goudsmit
Samuel Goudsmit | |
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Samuel Goudsmit around 1928 | |
| Born | Samuel Abraham Goudsmit July 11, 1902 The Hague, Netherlands |
| Died | December 4, 1978 (aged 76) Reno, Nevada, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Leiden (Ph.D) (1927) |
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| Spouses | Jaantje Logher
(m. 1927; div. 1960)Irene Bejach (m. 1960) |
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| Awards | National Medal of Science (1976) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University of Michigan |
| Doctoral students | Robert Bacher |
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.