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Stern, Otto 1888-1969.  
German-born American physicist. He won a 1943 Nobel Prize for detecting the magnetic movements of atomic particles.
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Stern, Otto

German-born scientist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1943 for his development of the molecular beam as a tool for studying the characteristics of molecules and for his measurement of the magnetic moment of the proton.

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