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Goudsmit married Jaantje Logher, in 1927. Their daughter, Esther Marianne Goudsmit was born in 1933 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 1964 she earned a PhD in Zoology from the University of Michigan, and in 1972 became a Professor of Biology at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. She retired in 1995.
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Samuel and Jaantje divorced in 1960, and in the same year Goudsmit married Irene Bejach. Like Goudsmit's parents, Irene's father, a German medical doctor and Berlin public health official, Curt Dietrich Bejach, had been murdered by the Nazis. He perished at the
388:) and contradicted by the fact that the totalitarian Soviet state produced the bomb shortly after the book's release. However that statement overlooks the actions of physicist Klaus Fuchs who sent "many intelligence reports directly from Los Alamos". 1141: 738:"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" 33: 1402: 1235: 925: 466:. The fragmentary stela must have been looted from the museum after its bombardment and had been sold to Goudsmit in 1945. It was returned to Berlin in April 2017. 380:
published in 1947, Goudsmit concludes that the Germans did not get close to creating a weapon. He attributed this to the inability of science to function under a
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Irene and her sister, Helga, left Germany for the United Kingdom as children shortly prior to the outbreak of World War II. They were evacuated as part of the
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state and to Nazi scientists' lack of understanding of how to engineer an atomic bomb. Both of these conclusions have been disputed by later historians (see
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in 1939, though he resigned the next year. He was readmitted in 1950. He was elected to the United States
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Annotated Bibliography for Samuel Abraham Goudsmit from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues
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Digitized presence of the Samuel A. Goudsmit papers, 1921–1979, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
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in Uruguay, 1942, Rio Negro Hydro site works, when the Nazis German engineers were deported.
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Esther M. Goudsmit papers, 1925–1999, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
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had identified an object from the collection with an object presumed lost from the
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Goudsmit, †S. A. (1981). "The Backview of Human Figures in Ancient Egyptian Art".
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Esther Marianne Goudsmit papers, 1927–1981, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
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Archief van Sam Goudsmit, Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam
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Samuel A. Goudsmit papers, 1921–1979, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
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G.E. Uhlenbeck and S. Goudsmit, Naturwissenschaften 13(47) (1925) 953.
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University of Michigan, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology (June 2, 2017).
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by the German occupiers of the Netherlands and were murdered there.
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Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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descent. He was the son of Isaac Goudsmit, a manufacturer of
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between 1927 and 1946. In 1930 he co-authored a text with
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As a student in Leiden he also developed an interest in
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Samuel A. Goudsmit Collection of Egyptian Antiquities
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Description of Goudsmit's contribution to the museum
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In July 1958 he started the journal 1229: 1227: 908:"Atoommodel en structuur der spectra" 483:American Academy of Arts and Sciences 335:Massachusetts Institute of Technology 253:Samuel Goudsmit portrait, circa 1940. 1438:Dutch emigrants to the United States 1413:Brookhaven National Laboratory staff 980: 766: 723: 680: 16:Dutch-American physicist (1902–1978) 1408:National Medal of Science laureates 1184: 873:Samuel Abraham Goudsmit 1902 — 1978 13: 1224: 923: 643:"Multiple Scattering of Electrons" 271: 14: 1494: 1299:'s structural chemistry research. 1276: 1468:20th-century American physicists 1310: 684: 146: 1448:Winners of the Max Planck Medal 1159: 1134: 1109: 1084: 1062: 1050: 579:American Journal of Archaeology 550:Journal of Near Eastern Studies 166: 142: 1423:University of Michigan faculty 1016:. Springer Biographies. 2018. 934: 917: 899: 884: 864: 832:"Obituary: Samuel A. 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The Hague
Reno, Nevada
University of Leiden
Electron spin
Operation Alsos
National Medal of Science
Physics
University of Michigan
Robert Bacher
Formal portrait of a man in a suit.
spin
George Eugene Uhlenbeck
The Hague
Dutch Jewish
water-closets
concentration camp

physics
University of Leiden
Paul Ehrenfest
University of Michigan
Linus Pauling
World War II
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alsos Mission
Werner Heisenberg
Otto Hahn
Hechingen
Yves Rocard

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