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Samuel Goudsmit Quotes

1902–1978 Netherlands

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.

Netherlands
Physicists

Also known as: Samuel Abraham Goudsmit

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I did all the problems a little different from the rest of the class.

In my study hangs a fine old horse shoe, which I found in an abandoned Western ghost town. I don't believe in superstitions, but it is supposed to work even for a nonbeliever2. It hasn't so far.

In short, we knew very little about the German uranium project, and what little we knew we almost invariably interpreted in their favor. In the long run, this was probably all to the good, since it accelerated our own work enormously. But in those days, before the invasion of Europe, we would have given a great deal to know more.

Alsos (1996)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Samuel Goudsmit (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.