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Sam Goudsmit and the hunt for Hitler's atom bomb / Martijn van Calmthout ; edited and translated by Michiel Horn.

"The first biography in English of a leading Dutch American physicist, who discovered the subatomic property of "spin" and spearheaded the search for Hitler's atom bomb as World War II came to an end"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Calmthout, Martijn van (Author)
Other Authors: Horn, Michiel, 1939- (Editor, Translator)
Other title:Sam Goudsmit. English
Format: Book
Language:English
Dutch
Published: Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2018.
Subjects:
Goudsmit, Samuel A. > (Samuel Abraham), > 1902-1978.
Physicists > Netherlands > Biography.
Jews > Netherlands > Biography.
Atomic bomb > Germany > History > 20th century.
Atomic bomb.
Jews.
Physicists.
Germany.
Netherlands.
Biography.
History.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: A home stripped bare : The Hague, September 1945
  • Nothing to lose as yet : Leiden, September 1927
  • Appeals and Zeeman's chair : Michigan, 1933-1940
  • The shadow of war : Boston, 1941-1944
  • Hitler's atom bomb : Paris, 1944
  • Uranium and heavy water : Germany, 1944-1945
  • The truth of Kistemaker : Amsterdam, 1960-1961
  • Heisenberg's version : Cambridge, 1945-1973
  • Sam's Cold War : Brookhaven, 1947-1978
  • Under the spell of the scarab : Leiden-Nevada, 1925-1978.

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