The demonstration of space quantization, carried out in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1922 by Otto Stern and Walther Gerlach, ranks among the dozen or so canonical experiments that ushered in the heroic age of quantum physics. Perhaps no other exp…That is, they did not conclude that spatial quantization is not a real effect after all (and definitively so). Instead “Stern and Gerlach made improvements in the apparatus, particularly in replacing a round beam slit by a rectangular one t…
Dudley Herschbach
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Herschbach appears only in passing reference within these excerpts, which actually focus on the Stern-Gerlach experiment as a foundational moment in quantum physics rather than on Herschbach's own work. The excerpts discuss methodological refinements to the apparatus but do not directly attribute ideas or contributions to him, making it difficult to establish his specific relevance to the course's concerns with AI, cybernetics, and their cultural implications based on these selections alone.
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