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Nov 5, 2022

How the Stern–Gerlach experiment made physicists believe in quantum mechanics

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A century ago, the German physicists Otto Stern and Walther Gerlach carried out an experiment that gave an important credibility boost to the new-fangled notion of quantum mechanics. But as Hamish Johnston discovers, their now-famous experiment succeeded even if the physics on which it was based wasn’t quite right.

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