Samuel Goudsmit

Person · Open Library

Born

1884

Died

1954

Works

5

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,822x

2. Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma

   · 2005 · cited 18,703x

3. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,938x

4. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis

   · 2022 · cited 13,835x

5. Potent and specific genetic interference by double-stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans

   · 1998 · cited 12,380x

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Quotes

• “We must expect that these German scientists, once they get here, will continually try to defend the actions of Germany before and during the war. Their background and education wiil have supplied them with the necessary arguments. The rocket specialists have at times tried to convince us that they worked on rockets only for the purpose of scientific research. The German atomic scientists, who failed in their attempt to make a bomb, planned to deny that they wanted to make one.”
• “I did all the problems a little different from the rest of the class.”
• “... I don't like the history of physics, I have always been against the way in which the historians wrote about it in earlier days. Nowadays it is better, someone like Martin Klein, that is real, he brings something new. But the earlier historians always described physics as if it had been done by three and four people and they forgot that these famous people could only do their work because of the many others who also made contributions. ...”
• “In my study hangs a fine old horse shoe, which I found in an abandoned Western ghost town. I don't believe in superstitions, but it is supposed to work even for a nonbeliever2. It hasn't so far.”
• “In short, we knew very little about the German uranium project, and what little we knew we almost invariably interpreted in their favor. In the long run, this was probably all to the good, since it accelerated our own work enormously. But in those days, before the invasion of Europe, we would have given a great deal to know more.”
• “Secrecy, it was impressed upon us at the outset, was imperative, despite the fact that our code name, ALSOS, seemed a give-away, being the Greek translation for Groves. Since General Groves was in complete charge of all Army activities relating to the atom bomb project, the inference did not take too much imagination. To make it even more obvious, the Mission's vehicles had license plates bearing the Greek letter Alpha.”

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Key facts

Born

Samuel Abraham Goudsmit , ( 1902-07-11 ) July 11, 1902, The Hague , Netherlands

Died

December 4, 1978 (1978-12-04) (aged 76), Reno, Nevada , U.S.

Alma mater

University of Leiden (Ph.D) (1927)

Known for

Electron spin Operation Alsos

Spouses

Jaantje Logher ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1927 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1960 ) ​ Irene Bejach ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1960 ) ​

Children

Esther Marianne Goudsmit

Awards

National Medal of Science (1976) Presidential Medal of Freedom

Fields

Physics

Institutions

University of Michigan

Doctoral students

Robert Bacher

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