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Polarized Electrons

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Since 1972, when the last survey of Polarized Electrons was presented at an International Conference on Atomic Physics, the field has progressed to the point where it has entered a new phase, one which, I believe, has been long awaited by everyone involved in spin-dependent electron interactions. From the time the concept of electron spin was first introduced by Goudsmit and Uhlenbeck2,3 in what Sam Goudsmit has reminiscently called the “springtime of modern atomic physics,”4 a great many physicists have devoted their energies to the study of phenomena which have been related to the electron spin. These studies have spanned virtually all of the disciplines of physics. Time and space—and no doubt your restlessness—will not permit me to review all these marvelous studies. With your indulgence, however, I should like to recollect for you several of the hallmarks in the fifty year history of the field of “polarized electrons.” In using the term “polarized electrons” I am referring now to any ensemble of free electrons whose average spin direction is preferentially oriented in space.

The preparation of this report was supported in part by the NSF (MPS75-02376), the USONR (N00014-76-C-0077), anb the USERDA (Yale Report No. 148) (E(11-1)3075)

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