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