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Samuel Goudsmit

1902 - 1978

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Samuel Abraham Goudsmit (July 11, 1902 – December 4, 1978) was a Dutch-American physicist famous for jointly proposing the concept of electron spin with George Eugene Uhlenbeck in 1925. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Samuel Goudsmit is the 404th most popular physicist (down from 398th in 2019), the 319th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 329th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Dutch Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Samuel Goudsmit ranks 404 out of 851. Before him are Arpad Elo, George Uhlenbeck, Takaaki Kajita, Tom Kibble, Paul Drude, and Friedrich Ernst Dorn. After him are Yoshio Nishina, Otto Schmidt, Jacob Bekenstein, Nick Holonyak, Georg Wilhelm Richmann, and Edwin Hall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Samuel Goudsmit ranks 96. Before him are Josef Krips, Giuseppe Pella, Darryl F. Zanuck, Nicolás Guillén, Jean Rey, and Bruno Streckenbach. After him are Hans Bellmer, Elsa Lanchester, Jean Bruller, Langston Hughes, Leon Ames, and Peregrino Anselmo. Among people deceased in 1978, Samuel Goudsmit ranks 77. Before him are Lilya Brik, Héctor Germán Oesterheld, Wadie Haddad, Viggo Brun, Pancho Vladigerov, and Gaston Julia. After him are José Manuel Moreno, Burt Munro, Oscar Homolka, Karl Lennart Oesch, Salvador de Madariaga, and Armin T. Wegner.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Samuel Goudsmit ranks 319 out of 1,646. Before him are Jacobus Oud (1890), Joop den Uyl (1919), Rafael van der Vaart (1983), Aad de Mos (1947), Henk Sneevliet (1883), and Armin van Buuren (1976). After him are Phillip Cocu (1970), Johan Rudolph Thorbecke (1798), Roy Makaay (1975), Johannes Willebrands (1909), Arne Slot (1978), and Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg (1768).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Netherlands

Among physicists born in Netherlands, Samuel Goudsmit ranks 15. Before him are Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920), Frits Zernike (1888), Martinus J. G. Veltman (1931), Gerard 't Hooft (1946), Jan Ingenhousz (1730), and Hans Kramers (1894). After him are Hendrik Casimir (1909), Wander Johannes de Haas (1878), Willem Hendrik Keesom (1876), Balthasar van der Pol (1889), Abraham Pais (1918), and Jan Burgers (1895).

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