Otto Stern

Otto Stern (February 17, 1888 – August 17, 1969) was an German physicist and Nobel laureate. Born in Żory (Upper Silesia), studied at Wroclaw University. After resigning from his post at the University of Hamburg in 1933, he became professor of physics at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and later professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. Stern was an outstanding experimental physicist; his contributions included development of the molecular-beam method, discovery of spin quantization (with Walther Gerlach, 1922; see Stern-Gerlach experiment), measurement of atomic magnetic moments, demonstration of the wave nature of atoms and molecules, and discovery of the proton's magnetic moment. He was awarded the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physics. Otto Stern Taken from Nobelprize. ... February 17 is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1888 is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... Sir Edward Appletons medal Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... Żory (read:[:Zho-ree]) is a town in south Poland with 62,800 inhabitants (2004). ... Upper Silesia (Polish: Górny ÅšlÄ…sk, German: Oberschlesien, Czech: Horní Slezsko) is the south-eastern part of Silesia, a historical and geographical region of Poland (Opole Voivodship and Silesian Voivodship) and of the Czech Republic (Silesian-Moravian Region). ... Uniwersytet Wrocławski (called Wroclaw University) is one of the nine universities of Wroclaw, Poland. ... ---Sidenote START--- The University of Hamburg was founded on the 1 April 1919 by Wilhelm Stern and others. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Since antiquity, people have tried to understand the behavior of matter: why unsupported objects drop to the ground, why different materials have different properties, and so forth. ... The Carnegie Institute of Technology was founded in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie. ... University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal, UCB, UC Berkeley, The University of California, California, or simply Berkeley) is a public coeducational university situated east of the San Francisco Bay in Berkeley, California, overlooking the Golden Gate. ... Molecular beam epitaxy, abbreviated MBE, is the deposition of one or more pure materials onto a single crystal wafer, one layer of atoms at a time, under ultra-high vacuum, forming a perfect crystal. ... In physics, spin is an intrinsic angular momentum associated with microscopic particles. ... Walther Gerlach (1 August 1889 - 10 August 1979) was a German physicist. ... 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... In quantum mechanics, the Stern-Gerlach experiment, named after Otto Stern and Walther Gerlach, is a celebrated experiment in 1920 on deflection of particles, often used to illustrate basic principles of quantum mechanics. ... Properties An atom (Greek άτομον from ά: non and τομον: divisible) is a submicroscopic structure found in all ordinary matter. ... In physics, the magnetic moment of an object is a vector relating the aligning torque in a magnetic field experienced by the object to the field vector itself. ... A molecule is the smallest particle of a pure chemical substance that still retains its chemical composition and properties. ... Properties In physics, the proton (Greek proton = first) is a subatomic particle with an electric charge of one positive fundamental unit (1. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) is a common year starting on Friday. ... Hannes Alfvén, 1970 winner for work on astrophysical plasmas List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ...

External links

• Otto Stern

References

• Friedrich, Bretislav and Dudley Herschbach, "Stern and Gerlach: How a Bad Cigar Helped Reorient Atomic Physics". Physics Today, December 2003. Available online at [1].