Stern and Gerlach: How a Bad Cigar Helped Reorient Atomic Physics

Bretislav Friedrich; Dudley R Herschbach

Physics
Published 2003
DOI:10.1063/1.1650229

Stern and Gerlach: How a Bad Cigar Helped Reorient Atomic Physics

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  title={Stern and Gerlach: How a Bad Cigar Helped Reorient Atomic Physics},
  author={Bretislav Friedrich and Dudley R Herschbach},
  year={2003}
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Bretislav Friedrich, Dudley R Herschbach

The history of the Stern–Gerlach experiment reveals how persistence, accident, and luck can sometimes combine in just the right ways.

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