Alsos- The failure in German science

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History ofModern Physics andAstronomy Volume
ALSOS
Samuel A. Goudsmit
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
DAVID CA55IDY
Hofstra University
Hempstead, New York
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The publisherwould like tothank Mrs. Samuel A. Goudsmit and Colonel BorisT.
Pashfortheirassistanceinpreparingthe1983reprintedition.Numerousphotographs
originally made available by Brookhaven National Laboratory were furnished by
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members of the Alsos Mission. We are also indebted to the directors and staff
members oftheCenterforthe HistoryofPhysicsandthe Niels BohrLibrary atthe
AmericanInstituteofPhysicswhoallowedustoreviewarchivalmaterialsonSamuel
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Alsos/SamuelA.Goudsmit;withanewintroductionbyDavidCassidy.
p. cm.-(Historyofmodernphysicsandastronomy;v. 1)
Originallypublished:NewYork:H.Schuman,c 1947.
Includes bibliographical referencesand index.
ISBN 1-56396-415-5
1.WorldWar,1939-1945-Science. 2.UnitedStates.WarDept.AlsosMission. 3.Atomic
bomb-Germany. 4.Nuclearphysics-Research-Germany. 5.Science~Germany-History~20th
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History ofModern Physics andAstronomy
EDITORIAL BOARD
Gerald Holton, Coeditor
Harvard University
Katherine R. Sopka, Coeditor
Four CornersAnalytic Sciences
Stephen G. Brush
University ofMaryland
Roger H. Stuewer
University ofMinnesota
Spencer R. Weart
CenterforHistory ofPhysics
American Institute ofPhysics
JohnA. Wheeler
Princeton University
University ofTexas
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History ofModern Physics andAstronomy
TITLES IN SERIES
Volume
1
Alsos
by Samuel A. Goudsmit
Reprinted in paperback with a new Introduction by
David Cassidy in 1996
Volume 2
Project Y: The Los Alamos Story
Part I: Toward Trinity
by David Hawkins
PartII: Beyond Trinity
by Edith C. Truslow and Ralph Carlisle Smith
Volume 3
American Physics in Transition: A History ofConceptual
Change in the Late Nineteenth Century
by Albert E. Moyer
Volume 4
The Question ofthe Atom: From the Karlsruhe
Congress to the FirstSolvay Conference, J860-191
by Mary Jo Nye
Volume 5
Physics Fora New Century:
Papers Presentedat the 1904 St. Louis Congress
Volume 6
Basic Bethe:
SeminalArticles on Nuclear Physics, 1936-1937
by Hans A. Bethe, Robert F. Bacher, and M. Stanley Livingston
Volume 7
History ofthe Theories ofAetherandElectricity:
Volumes IandII
by Sir Edmund Whittaker
1
History ofModern Physics andAstronomy
Volume 8
Radar in World WarII
by Henry Guerlac
Volume 9
Atoms in the Family: My Life with Enrico Fermi
by Laura Fermi
Volume 10
Quantum Physics inAmerica:
The Years Through 1935
by Katherine R. Sopka
Volume
1
The Theory ofHeatRadiation
by Max Planck
Volume 12
The ConceptualDevelopment
ofQuantum Mechanics
by Max Jammer
Volume 13
New Methods ofCelestialMechanics:
Parts 1-3
by Henri Poincare
Volume 14
Explorerofthe Universe
A Biography ofGeorge Ellery Hale
by Helen Wright
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