Gerlach, Walter

A number of tables have been compiled showing the Specific gravity of aq. soln., of sodium carbonate at different temp, by G. T. Gerlach, J. Tiinnermann, H. Schiff, R. Wegscheider and H. Walter, F. Fouque, G. J. W. Bremer, and G. Lunge and for very dil. soln. by F. Kohlraiisch and W. Hallwachs. The results in Table L... 

Even before electron spin had been proposed, there was experimental evidence that electrons had an additional property that needed explanation. In 1921 Otto Stem and Walter Gerlach succeeded in separating a beam of neutral atoms into two groups by passing them through a nonhomogeneous magnetic field. 

What is the evidence that the phenomenon of electron spin exists An experiment by Otto Stern and Walter Gerlach in 1920, though designed for another purpose, seems to yield this proof (Fig. 8-33). Silver was vaporized in an oven, and a beam of silver atoms was passed through a nonuniform magnetic field, where the beam split in two. Here is a simplified explanation. 

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