Samuel Goudsmit

Samuel Goudsmit Historical Figure Nationality: United States (born in Netherlands) Year of Birth: 1902 Year of Death: 1978 Cause of Death: Heart attack Religion: Judaism Occupation: Physicist Fictional Appearances: The Man With the Iron Heart POD: May 29, 1942; Relevant POD: May, 1945 Type of Appearance: Contemporary reference Military Branch: United States Army (World War II)

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. He was also part of the Manhattan Project during World War II.

Samuel Goudsmit in The Man With the Iron Heart

Samuel Goudsmit was a science officer in the United States Army immediately after World War II. He informed Captain Howard Frank that the German Freedom Front had almost certainly captured 10 grams of radium from a rubbish dump in Hechingen in French-occupied Germany.