Samuel Goudsmit

Samuel Abraham Goudsmit was a male physicist born in The Hague in 1902 and died in Reno in 1978. He held citizenship in the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the United States. His professional career included positions at Leiden University, the University of Michigan, Northwestern University, and the University of Nevada, Reno. He studied theoretical physics under Paul Ehrenfest at Leiden University.

Goudsmit participated in the Manhattan Project and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics. He received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Max Planck Medal, the National Medal of Science, and the Order of the British Empire. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Physical Society. His doctoral students included Robert Bacher and Ta-You Wu.