Article ID: CBB000077807

Space quantization: Otto Stern's lucky star (1998)

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Friedrich, Bretislav (Author)
Herschbach, Dudley R. (Author)


Dædalus
Volume: 127 no.1
Issue: 1
Pages: 165-191

Description On the experiment, carried out in Frankfurt in 1921-22 by Otto Stern and Walther Gerlach, that “showed unequivocally that space quantization was real, and thus provided compelling evidence that a new mechanics was required to describe the atomic world.”


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Authors & Contributors
Walter Dittrich
Cerea, Alessandra
D'Agostino, Salvo
Johannes-Geert Hagmann
Weinert, Friedel
Stoeger, William R.
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Studia i Materialy z Dziejów Nauki Polskiej. Seria E: Zagadnienia Ogólne
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Physics in Perspective
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Publishers
Luigi Pellegrini Editore
Guaraldi
ELIA
Deutsches Museum
Concepts
Quantum mechanics
Physics
Electromagnetism
Relativity
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Science and religion
People
Gerlach, Walther
Stern, Otto
Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice
Devereux, Georges
Uhlenbeck, George Eugene
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
Places
Italy
Germany
Institutions
McGill University
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