Walther Gerlach (1889 to 1979) was a German experimental physicist born in Biebrich who studied at Tübingen under Friedrich Paschen and took his doctorate there in 1912. In early 1922 at Frankfurt he carried out the experiment, conceived by Otto Stern, that demonstrated spin quantization in a magnetic field and is known as the Stern-Gerlach experiment. He held professorships at Tübingen from 1925 and at the University of Munich from 1929, with a second term as head of its physics department after 1948. From December 1943 until his capture by US forces in May 1945 he was the plenipotentiary for nuclear physics in Nazi Germany.
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was a German physicist who co-discovered
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was a German physicist who co-discovered
Member Of: Goethe University Frankfurt, Career, interwar period
he became außerordentlicher (extraordinary) professor at Goethe University Frankfurt
Member Of: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Career, interwar period
became ordinarius professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
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He studied at the University of Tübingen from 1908
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co-discovered, through laboratory experiment, spin quantization in a magnetic field
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