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

  • Friedrich B
  • Herschbach D
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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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Friedrich, B., & Herschbach, D. (2003). Stern and Gerlach: How a Bad Cigar Helped Reorient Atomic Physics. Physics Today, 56(12), 53–59. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1650229

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