Walther Gerlach

Walther Gerlach
Born(1889-08-01)1 August 1889
Died10 August 1979(1979-08-10) (aged 90)
NationalityGerman
Alma materEberhard Karls University of Tübingen
Known forStern–Gerlach experiment
Scientific career
FieldsExperimental Physics
InstitutionsJohann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main
Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
Academic advisorsFriedrich Paschen
Doctoral studentsGertrude Scharff Goldhaber[1]
Heinz Billing[2]

Walther Gerlach (1 August 1889 – 10 August 1979)[3] was a German physicist who co-discovered, through laboratory experiment, spin quantization in a magnetic field, the Stern–Gerlach effect. The experiment was conceived by Otto Stern in 1921 and successfully conducted first by Gerlach in early 1922.[4][5][6]

  1. ^ Bond, Peter D.; Henley, Ernest (1999), Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber 1911–1998 (PDF), Biographical Memoirs, vol. 77, Washington, D.C.: The National Academy Press, p. 4
  2. ^ J. A. N. Lee (1995). "Heinz Billing". Computer pioneers. IEEE Computer Society. ISBN 978-0-8186-6357-4. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
  3. ^ "Gerlach, Walther | Frankfurter Personenlexikon". frankfurter-personenlexikon.de. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  4. ^ Gerlach, W.; Stern, O. (1922). "Der experimentelle Nachweis der Richtungsquantelung im Magnetfeld". Zeitschrift für Physik. 9 (1): 349–352. Bibcode:1922ZPhy....9..349G. doi:10.1007/BF01326983. S2CID 186228677.
  5. ^ Gerlach, W.; Stern, O. (1922). "Das magnetische Moment des Silberatoms". Zeitschrift für Physik. 9 (1): 353–355. Bibcode:1922ZPhy....9..353G. doi:10.1007/BF01326984. S2CID 126109346.
  6. ^ Gerlach, W.; Stern, O. (1922). "Der experimentelle Nachweis des magnetischen Moments des Silberatoms". Zeitschrift für Physik. 8 (1): 110–111. Bibcode:1922ZPhy....8..110G. doi:10.1007/BF01329580. S2CID 122648402.