Samuel Abraham Goudsmit
Samuel Abraham Goudsmit was a Dutch-American physicist famous for jointly proposing the concept of electron spin with George Eugene Uhlenbeck in 1925.
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Background
- Born in
- The Hague
- Educated at
- Leiden University
- Awards
- 🏆 Order of the British Empire🏆 Max Planck Medal🏆 National Medal of Science🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 Fellow of the American Physical Society
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Paul Ehrenfest
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Robert Bacher📖 Ta-You Wu
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1902
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