Walter Gerlach
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Walter Gerlach (1 August 1889 - 10 August 1979) was a German physicist.
He discovered the spin quantization together with Otto Stern in 1922. (Stern-Gerlach experiment) Suspected of involvement in the Nazi nuclear research programme, he was taken to the UK for questioning.
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- Walther Gerlach, Otto Stern (1922). "Das magnetische Moment des Silberatoms". Zeitschrift für Physik A Hadrons and Nuclei 9. DOI:10.1007/BF01326984.
- Friedrich, Bretislav and Herschbach, Dudley. "Stern and Gerlach: How a Bad Cigar Helped Reorient Atomic Physics" Physics Today, December 2003.
