The Niels Bohr Library and Archives of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) has digitised the complete papers of renowned physicist Samuel A. Goudsmit (1902-1978). The papers, which occupy 39 linear feet of shelf space in the library and contain about 69,000 images, have been released online and are now published on the library's website at http://www.aip.org/history/nbl/collections/goudsmit.
The papers are a major international collection of correspondence, research notebooks, lectures, reports, World War II science documents, and other material of Goudsmit, a Dutch-born physicist who spent his career in the US and was at the forefront of physics research for more than 50 years. The collection contains especially strong sources on the development of quantum physics in Europe and how it spread to the US during the first half of the 20th century.
Among the resources in the collection are reports of German efforts to develop an atomic bomb during World War II, post-war physics research, and important milestones in scientific publishing. Because of their breadth and depth, the Goudsmit papers are reportedly the most used onsite collection in AIP's Library and Archives.
The Goudsmit Papers document the mainstream of physics research from the 1920s through the mid-1970s. The project to digitize the Goudsmit Papers took two years and was partially supported by the U.S. National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
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