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Walther Gerlach

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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Walther Gerlach is the 347th most popular physicist (up from 405th in 2019), the 1,539th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,276th in 2019) and the 47th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Walther Gerlach ranks 347 out of 851Before him are Bruno Pontecorvo, Stephen Hales, Giorgio Parisi, Joseph Swan, Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, and Yakov Zeldovich. After him are John G. Trump, Theodore Lyman IV, Ami Argand, Auguste Bravais, Louis Poinsot, and Hans Kramers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Walther Gerlach ranks 61Before him are Hannes Meyer, Erik Jan Hanussen, Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, Efim Bogoljubov, Beno Gutenberg, and Gunnar Gunnarsson. After him are Olave Baden-Powell, Richard Glücks, Eberhard von Mackensen, Zoltán Tildy, Amrit Kaur, and Harry Nyquist. Among people deceased in 1979, Walther Gerlach ranks 56Before him are Nicholas Ray, Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth, Louis Durey, Conrad Hilton, Richard Rodgers, and Charles W. Morris. After him are Pier Luigi Nervi, Michael Wilding, Rudi Dutschke, Heinz Reinefarth, Nicos Poulantzas, and Nereo Rocco.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walther Gerlach ranks 1,539 out of 7,253Before him are Fabian von Schlabrendorff (1907), Karl Richter (1926), Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884), Albert Günther (1830), Karl August von Hardenberg (1750), and Douglas Sirk (1897). After him are Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1591), Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal (1861), Alice Weidel (1979), Annemarie Schimmel (1922), Princess Charlotte of Prussia (1831), and Rudolf Diels (1900).

Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Walther Gerlach ranks 47Before him are Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912), Friedrich Hund (1896), Rainer Weiss (1932), Christoph Scheiner (1575), Ludwig Prandtl (1875), and John B. Goodenough (1922). After him are Pascual Jordan (1902), Franz Aepinus (1724), Heinrich Geißler (1814), Wolfgang Ketterle (1957), Franz Ernst Neumann (1798), and Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (1824).