# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-goudsmit
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:24:00.339Z

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name: "Samuel Goudsmit"
slug: "samuel-goudsmit"
description: "Samuel Abraham Goudsmit was a Dutch-American physicist famous for jointly proposing the concept of electron spin with George Eugene Uhlenbeck in 1925."
tagline: "Dutch-American physicist (1902–1978)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Goudsmit%2CSamuel_Abraham_1963_Kopenhagen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1902-07-11"
deathDate: "1978-12-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump