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Samuel Abraham Goudsmit

Alsos mission chief advisor. Brookheaven National Laboratory. Professor as Northwestern University. University of Michigan (Pictured with Hilde and Paul Rosbaud in 1961).

1975 to 1978 - Visting Professor, University of Nevada, Reno

Goudsmit retired from his editorial work in 1974 and accepted a position as distinguished visiting professor at the University of Nevada at Reno. His only teaching assignment there was a large general education course in “physics appreciation.”

1974 to 1978 - Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Nevada at Reno.[5]

1972 to 1981 - Scholarly contributions to Egyptolog.[1,8]

1968, two Brookhaven researchers [Gordon Danby and James Powell] patented Maglev, the principle of superfast magnetically-levitated transportation. Conceived as a 300-mile-per-hour mass transit alternative to congested highways, Maglev has been actively pursued in Germany and Japan.[7]

1958 to 1978 - Editor, Physical Review Letters, America Physical Society (now APS Physics).[4]

1957 to 1974 - Visting Professor, Rockefeller Institute.[4]

1952 to 1974 - Editor, Physical Review (American Physical Society).[5]

1950 to 1978 - Chair of Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory.[5]

1949 to 1959 - Lecturer, United States Navy Bureau of Ships.

1948 to 1970 - Senior scientist at the Brookheaven National Laboratory (BNL), charing the Physics Department between 1952 and 1960.[4]

1948 to 1951 - Lecturer, New School for Social Research.[4]

1948 to 1950 - Member of staff, Brookhaven National Laboratory.[5]

1947, construction began on the first nuclear reactor at Brookhaven. In 1952, work began on the particle accelerator, the Cosmotron.

1947 - Member, National Academy of Sciences.[4]

1946 to 1948 - Professor of Physics, Northwestern University.[4]

Post WW2, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) was created (Superceded by US Department of Energy DOE) which in Mar 1946, created a nonprofit corp consisting of Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Princeton, University of Pennslylvania, University of Rochester and Yale University.

Sep 1943, Chief scientific advisor to the Alsos Mission (part of the Manhattan Project), commanded by Colon Boris Pash (former Manhattan Project security officer). Alsos mission was an organised effort by a team of United States military, scientific and intelligence personnel to discover enemy scientific developments during WW2. Jointly staffed by the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) and the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), the Manhattan Project and Army Intelligence (G-2) with field assistance from combat engineers assigned to specific task forces. [2,15] Note: Paul Rosbaud. They already knew that Germany did not pose a nuclear threat. Other technologies were being progressed.

WW2 - 1943, his parents (manufacturers of water closets and millinery shop) were deported to a concentration camp by the German occupiers of the Netherlands and were murdered there.[6]

WW2 - 1940 - Conducted secret research on radar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[5]

1939, Goudsmit became a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, though he resigned the next year. He was readmitted in 1950.[1,9]

1927 to 1946, Academic appointment, University of Michigan.[5]

1927 - University of Leiden , Doctor of Philosophy Leiden and The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands.[5]

Died 4 Dec 1978, from TBC. Age 76. Event T + 14y4m21d ( 5,225 days )

[1] - FYI - Wiki - Samuel Abraham Goudsmit

[2] - Spartacus Eductional.com - picture of Goudsmit and Rosbaud

[3] - FYI - Wiki - Alsos Mission

[4] - Physics History Network - Samuel A. Goudsmit
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1927 - Obtained PhD in Physics, University of Leiden, Leiden (Netherlands).
1927 to 1946 - Associate Professor of Physics (1927-1932) and Professor of Physics (1932-1946), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Mich.).
1941 to 1946 - Researcher, Radiation Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
1944 to 1945 - Scientific Head, Operation ALSOS, Office of Field Service, Office of Scientific Research and Development.
1946 to 1948 - Professor of Physics, Northwestern University.
1947 - Member, National Academy of Sciences.
1948 to 1951 - Lecturer, New School for Social Research.
1948 to 1970 - Senior Scientist (1948-1970) and Chair, Department of Physics (1952-1960), Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton (N.Y.).
1949 to 1959 - Lecturer, United States Navy Bureau of ships.
1957 to 1974 - Visting Professor, Rockefeller Institute.
1958 to 1978 - Editor, Physical Review Letters, America Physical Society.
1975 to 1978 - Visting Professor, University of Nevada, Reno.