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Goudsmit, Samuel A. (Samuel Abraham), 1902-1978
Samuel and Irene Goudsmit collection, 1862-1944.
Correspondence regarding Nazi Germany's nuclear energy and atomic bomb research including seven letters from Hermann Goerring to members of the Reichsforschungsrat (Dr. Gerlach and Dr. Mentzel), and three letters from Himmler (two addressed Werner Heisenberg); photocopy of article "The Critical Mass" by Jonothan Logan detailing Samuel Goudsmit's involvement in the allied team that captured German atomic installations (published in "American Scientist" vol. 84, 1966, pp. 263-277). Addenda to collection include an obituary; documents and correspondence concerning Dr. Curt Dietrich Bejach and his family; document confirming military service in World War I; clippings.
Physicist, born in The Hague in 1902. As a graduate student at the University of Leyden he discovered the electron's spin together with George E. Uhlenbeck in 1925. He came to the United States in 1927. After World War II it was disclosed that he had been scientific director of Alsos, the secret wartime operation to learn of the Germans' development of an atomic bomb. His parents died in a concentration camp. He served as an editor for several influential physical journals. He died in Reno, Nevada on December 4, 1978.
Heisenberg, Werner, 1901-1976
Logan, Jonathan.
United States. War Dept. Alsos Mission.
Atomic bomb -- Germany.
Nuclear Physics -- Research -- Germany.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Science.
Germany -- History -- 1933-1945.
United States. War Dept. Alsos Mission.
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Leo Baeck Institute at the Center for Jewish History. 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011, USA
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