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ZEEMAN, Pieter. Autograph letter signed ("P. Zeeman") in Dutch to Samuel A. Gousmit, Amsterdam, 30 April 1933. 3 pages, 8o, on Zeeman's lined stationery, staple removed from upper left corner, otherwise fine .
ZEEMAN ON CURIE, GEIGER, PERRIN, RAMAN, J.J. THOMSON, SUPER FLUIDS AND THE ZEEMAN EFFECT
Goudsmit, a student of Paul Ehrenfest from 1919, split his time in 1924 studying with Zeeman as an experimental spectroscopist. "With Ehrenfest's group in Leiden for the rest of the week, Goudsmit concentrated on manipulating formulas for accounting for the intensity of X-ray lines. There were no general rules" (DSB). Goudsmit collaborated with Uhlenbeck on the discovery of electron spin. At the time of this writing, Goudsmit was on the faculty at the University of Michigan. Zeeman thanks Goudsmit for sending a copy of his book Atomic Energy States: "The book will be very useful, much more so than the Tables annuelles. Subsequent editions of yours and Bacher's book will prove particularly indispensable, since the Tables annuelles will be quite reduced. The Stark and Zeeman effects and the Raman spectra will have to be left out, due to lack of funds... I am already taking some pleasure in a mass spectrograph I installed following Thomson's parabola method. I can indeed prove through experimentation... Keesom the percentage H1 H2 had increased by distilled evaporation and correction... After her stay with Mad[ame] Curie, Miss Lub is back in Amsterdam. De Bruin is now custodian. Francis Perrin recently paid us a visit. Holweck was going to come too, but I had to leave for Algiers, to do gravity measurements for a government commission. We are now waiting for Geiger to visit us on May 11th." Extremely rare with scientific content like this.
ZEEMAN ON CURIE, GEIGER, PERRIN, RAMAN, J.J. THOMSON, SUPER FLUIDS AND THE ZEEMAN EFFECT
Goudsmit, a student of Paul Ehrenfest from 1919, split his time in 1924 studying with Zeeman as an experimental spectroscopist. "With Ehrenfest's group in Leiden for the rest of the week, Goudsmit concentrated on manipulating formulas for accounting for the intensity of X-ray lines. There were no general rules" (DSB). Goudsmit collaborated with Uhlenbeck on the discovery of electron spin. At the time of this writing, Goudsmit was on the faculty at the University of Michigan. Zeeman thanks Goudsmit for sending a copy of his book Atomic Energy States: "The book will be very useful, much more so than the Tables annuelles. Subsequent editions of yours and Bacher's book will prove particularly indispensable, since the Tables annuelles will be quite reduced. The Stark and Zeeman effects and the Raman spectra will have to be left out, due to lack of funds... I am already taking some pleasure in a mass spectrograph I installed following Thomson's parabola method. I can indeed prove through experimentation... Keesom the percentage H