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Stern–Gerlach experiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1181 words) |
 | In quantum mechanics, the Stern–Gerlach experiment, named after Otto Stern and Walther Gerlach, is a celebrated experiment in 1922 on deflection of particles, often used to illustrate basic principles of quantum mechanics. |
| The Stern–Gerlach experiment was performed in Frankfurt, Germany in 1922 by Otto Stern and Walther Gerlach. |
| At the time, Stern was an assistant to Max Born at the University of Frankfurt's Institute for Theoretical Physics, and Gerlach was an assistant at the same university's Institute for Experimental Physics. |
| Physics Today December 2003 - Stern and Gerlach: How a Bad Cigar Helped Reorient Atomic Physics (4215 words) |
| Walther Gerlach received his doctorate in physics at the University of Tübingen in 1912. |
| Gerlach also sent a postcard to Bohr with a congratulatory message, showing a photograph of the clearly resolved splitting (see figure 4). |
| Gerlach came to Rostock later in 1922 and tried in vain to observe it in sodium vapor; similar efforts by others had the same outcome. |
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