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Walther Gerlach

Walther Gerlach
Walter Gerlach, German physicist and academic (d. 1979)

Walther Gerlach was a German physicist who co-discovered, through laboratory experiment, spin quantization in a magnetic field, the Stern–Gerlach effect. The experiment was conceived by Otto Stern in 1921 and successfully conducted first by Gerlach in early 1922.

1 August 1889

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