English Explanatory Dictionary

Stern-Gerlach experiment

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. An experiment demonstrating that the spatial orientation of angular momentum is quantized, and thus an atomic-scale system has intrinsically quantum properties.

Word forms

Stern-Gerlach experiment the Stern-Gerlach experiment

Etymology

After its conception by Otto Stern in 1921, the experiment was first successfully conducted with Walther Gerlach in early 1922.

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