Ebook: Sam Goudsmit and the Hunt for Hitler's Atom Bomb

"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"--;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.