Otto Stern
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| Born |
17 February 1888 Sohrau, Kingdom of Prussia (today Żory, Poland) |
| Died | 17 August 1969 (aged 81) Berkeley, California, United States |
| Nationality | Germany |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions |
University of Hamburg Carnegie Institute of Technology University of California, Berkeley |
| Alma mater |
University of Breslau University of Frankfurt |
| Known for |
Stern–Gerlach experiment Spin quantization Molecular ray method Stern–Volmer relationship |
| Notable awards | Nobel Prize in Physics (1943) |
Otto Stern (17 February 1888 – 17 August 1969) was a German physicist and Nobel laureate in physics. He was the 2nd most nominated person for a Nobel Prize with 82 nominations in the years 1925-1945 (most times nominated is Arnold Sommerfeld with 84 nominations), ultimately winning in 1943.
Stern was born into a Jewish family (father Oskar Stern and mother Eugenia née Rosenthal) in Sohrau (now Żory) in Upper Silesia, the German Empire's Kingdom of Prussia (now in Poland). He studied at Breslau, now Wrocław in Lower Silesia.
Stern completed his studies at the University of Breslau in 1912 with a doctor's degree in physical chemistry. He then followed Albert Einstein to Charles University in Prague and in later to ETH Zurich. Stern received his Habilitation at the University of Frankfurt in 1915 and in 1921, he became a professor at the , which he left in 1923 to work at the newly founded Institut für Physikalische Chemie at the University of Hamburg.
After resigning from his post at the University of Hamburg in 1933 because of the Nazis' Machtergreifung (seizure of power), he became professor of physics at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and later professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.
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