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The Stern—Gerlach Experiment

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  • We strongly recommend any reader interested in the historical aspects of Stern and Gerlach’s work to read “Space Quantization: Otto Stern’s Luck Star”, by B. Friedrich and D. Herschbach, Daedalus 127, 165 (1998). See also M. Jammer, The Conceptual Development of Quantum Mechanics, McGraw-Hill, New York (1966); B.L. Van Der Waerden, Sources of Quantum Mechanics, North-Holland, Amsterdam (1967); J. Mehra and H. Rechenberg, The Historical Development of Quantum Theory, Springer, Berlin (1982).

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(2002). The Stern—Gerlach Experiment. In: Quantum Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-28805-8_8

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