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Sam Goudsmit and the hunt for Hitler's atom bomb / Martijn van Calmthout ; edited and translated by Michiel Horn.
Van Pelt Library DS135.N6 G65613 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Calmthout, Martijn van, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Sam Goudsmit. English
- Language:
- Dutch
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Goudsmit, Samuel A. (Samuel Abraham), 1902-1978.
- Goudsmit, Samuel A.
- Physicists--Netherlands--Biography.
- Physicists.
- Jews--Netherlands--Biography.
- Jews.
- Atomic bomb.
- History.
- Netherlands.
- Germany.
- Atomic bomb--Germany--History--20th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 243 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2018.
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Published in 2016 in Dutch by Meulenhoff bockerij (Amsterdam).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-238) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781633884502
- 1633884503
- OCLC:
- 1023053669
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