Otto Stern - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1943
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Otto Stern

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1943
for his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton
Citizenship
United States United States Germany Germany
Languages
English, German
date of birth
2/17/1888
place of birth
Żory
date of death
8/17/1969
place of death
Berkeley
Lived
81 years
member of
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1946
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
educated at
  • Goethe University Frankfurt
  • Johanneum Breslau
  • University of Wrocław
employer
  • University of Hamburg
  • University of Rostock
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • ETH Zurich
  • Carnegie Mellon University
field of work
  • physics
  • physical chemistry
  • nuclear physics
  • quantum physics
occupation
  • physicist
  • chemist
  • university teacher
notable work
  • Stern–Gerlach experiment
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