Otto Stern
FEB 17, 2016
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.031155
On this day in 1888 physicist Otto Stern was born in Sohrau, Germany (now Zory, Poland). In the 1920s he experimented with streams of particles called molecular beams. His work with colleague Walther Gerlach demonstrated that atoms are restricted in the directions they can align in a magnetic field, just as quantum theory predicts. In 1933 Stern measured the magnetic moment of the proton. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1943.
Date in History: 17 February 1888
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