Article ID: CBB000070839

Wrong theory--right experiment: The significance of the Stern-Gerlach experiments (1995)

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Description “Because of its status in the history of physics as a famous experiment, and its many uninvestigated ramifications, the Stern-Gerlach experiment [on the quantization of angular momentum] provides an excellent opportunity for the study of the relationship between theory and experiment. The results of the Stern-Gerlach experiments, and many others based on a Stern-Gerlach apparatus, were theory-guided, not theory-determined.”


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Authors & Contributors
Mainz, Vera V.
Johannes-Geert Hagmann
Jordi Taltavull, Marta
Zanghi, Nino
Whitaker, M. Andrew B.
Tumulka, Roderich
Journals
Synthese
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
Revue de Synthèse
Progress in Quantum Electronics
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences
Publishers
Springer International Publishing
State University of New York Press
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Quantum mechanics
Explanation; hypotheses; theories
Physics
Theoretical physics
Philosophy of science
Physicists
People
Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Stern, Otto
Gerlach, Walther
Einstein, Albert
Uhlenbeck, George Eugene
Sommerfeld, Arnold Johannes Wilhelm
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
19th century
Places
Germany
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