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Walter Gerlach
Also known as Walther Gerlach
German physicist (1889-1979)
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Walther Gerlach (1 August 1889 – 10 August 1979) was a German physicist who co-discovered, through laboratory experiment, spin quantization in a magnetic field, the Stern–Gerlach effect. The experiment was conceived by Otto Stern in 1921 and successfully conducted first by Gerlach in early 1922. He was Nazi Germany's plenipotentiary of nuclear physics from December 1943 until his capture by US Army in May 1945.
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1889 births1979 deathsAcademic staff of Goethe University FrankfurtAcademic staff of LMU MunichAcademic staff of the University of BonnAcademic staff of the University of GöttingenAcademic staff of the University of TübingenFraunhofer SocietyGerman Army personnel of World War IGerman nuclear physicistsGerman people of World War IIKnights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany