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Some comments on the historical paper by H. Schmidt-Böcking “The Stern-Gerlach experiment re-examined by an experimenter” (EPN 50/3 pp. 15-19)

J. Vigué

Published Sep 1, 2019• 1 citation
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Some comments on the historical paper by H. Schmidt-Bo ¨cking "The Stern-
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10.1051/epn/2019501

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