Stern and Gerlach: How a Bad Cigar Helped Reorient Atomic Physics
Abstract
The history of the Stern-Gerlach experiment reveals how persistence, accident, and luck can sometimes combine in just the right ways.
- Publication:
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Physics Today
- Pub Date:
- December 2003
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.1650229
- Bibcode:
- 2003PhT....56l..53F