Died 1979-08-10.
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Walter Gerlach
Walther Gerlach 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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Born 1 August 1889 · Died 10 August 1979 · Q61745
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1974· 1 entry
Won Harnack medal (1974).
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1970· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1970).
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1957· 1 entry
Gerlach was a co-signer of the Göttingen Manifesto, which was against rearming the Federal Republic of Germany with atomic weapons
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1949· 1 entry
Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1949).
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1946· 1 entry
Became a visiting professor at the University of Bonn
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1929· 1 entry
Took a call and became ordinarius professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, successor to Wilhelm Wien
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1925· 1 entry
Gerlach took a call and became an ordinarius professor at the University of Tübingen, successor to Friedrich Paschen
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1921· 2 entries
And successfully conducted first by Gerlach in early 1922
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Became außerordentlicher (extraordinary) professor at Goethe University Frankfurt
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1889· 1 entry
Born 1889-08-01.
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