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Born August 1, 1889 • Germany
Died August 10, 1979 (aged 90) • Munich • Germany
Subjects Of Study Stern-Gerlach experiment
Stern, Otto
Otto Stern
American physicist
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
German-American physicist
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Max Planck
Max Planck
German physicist
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
David Hilbert
David Hilbert
German mathematician
Rainer Weiss
American physicist
Max Born
Max Born
German physicist
Peierls, Sir Rudolf Ernst; Dirac, P.A.M.; Pauli, Wolfgang
Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls
British physicist
Pascual Jordan
German physicist
Peter Armbruster
German physicist
Hermann Weyl
Hermann Weyl
German-American mathematician
Plücker, Julius
Julius Plücker
German mathematician and physicist
Johann Philipp Reis
German physicist
Abbe, Ernst
Ernst Abbe
German physicist
Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild
German astronomer
Maria Goeppert Mayer.
Maria Goeppert Mayer
American physicist
Störmer, Horst L.
Horst L. Störmer
German-American physicist

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