Stern-Gerlach experiment

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Etymology[edit]

After its conception by Otto Stern in 1921, the experiment was first successfully conducted with Walther Gerlach in early 1922.

Proper noun[edit]

the Stern-Gerlach experiment

  1. (quantum mechanics) An experiment demonstrating that the spatial orientation of angular momentum is quantized, and thus an atomic-scale system has intrinsically quantum properties.
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