Biography:Otto Stern

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Otto Stern
Otto Stern
Otto Stern


Fields Physics
Known for Otto Stern was also the pen name of German women's rights activist Louise Otto-Peters (1819–1895).

Otto Stern is a biographical subject in the ScholarlyWiki science collection. Otto Stern was also the pen name of German women's rights activist Louise Otto-Peters (1819–1895). Otto Stern (German: ˈɔto ˈʃtɛʁn ; 17 February 1888 – 17 August 1969) was a German-American experimental physical chemist.[1]

Work and context

He is the second most nominated person for a Nobel Prize, with 82 nominations during the years 1925–1945. In 1943, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton".

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References


Author: Harold Foppele


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