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Reported the splitting of an atomic beam in an inhomogeneous magnetic field as experimental evidence for quantized spatial orientation.
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Scientific scope
The 1922 authors interpreted the result within then-current orbital quantization; the later electron-spin interpretation is not retroactively attributed to their paper.
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- German Physical Society: 100 years of the Stern-Gerlach experiment
- Translation of Gerlach and Stern, Der experimentelle Nachweis der Richtungsquantelung im Magnetfeld
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Walther Gerlach; Otto Stern
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English catalogue narrative
Gerlach and Stern: experimental evidence for directional quantization
Reported the splitting of an atomic beam in an inhomogeneous magnetic field as experimental evidence for quantized spatial orientation.
Scientific scope
The 1922 authors interpreted the result within then-current orbital quantization; the later electron-spin interpretation is not retroactively attributed to their paper.
Reading status
This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Walther Gerlach; Otto Stern
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.