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Otto Stern
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| Born | February 17, 1888 |
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| Died | August 17, 1969 |
| Field | Physics |
| Notable prizes |  Nobel Prize in Physics (1943) |
Otto Stern (February 17, 1888 – August 17, 1969) was a German physicist and Nobel laureate.
Stern was born in Sohrau (Żory) in Upper Silesia, in the German Empire's Prussian Province of Silesia, and studied at Breslau (Wrocław) in Lower Silesia. After resigning from his post at the University of Hamburg in 1933 because of the Nazis' Machtergreifung (seizure of power), he became professor of physics at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and later professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.
Stern was an outstanding experimental physicist; his contributions included development of the Molecular Ray Method, discovery of spin quantization (with Walther Gerlach (1922, see Stern-Gerlach experiment), measurement of atomic magnetic moments, demonstration of the wave nature of atoms and molecules, discovery of the proton's magnetic moment, and banning his friend, the theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli, from entering his laboratory because of the so-called Pauli effect . He was awarded the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- Friedrich, Bretislav and Dudley Herschbach, "Stern and Gerlach: How a Bad Cigar Helped Reorient Atomic Physics". Physics Today, December 2003. Available online at [1].
- www.nobel-winners.com Otto Stern
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