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Uhlenbeck, George Eugene 1900-88
US physicist
Born in Batavia (Jakarta), Indonesia, he studied at the University of Leyden and from 1927 worked at the University of Michigan, where he was appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics in 1939. To explain the results of the Stern-Gerlach experiment which showed that a beam of particles passing through a magnetic field are deflected in different directions, Uhlenbeck and his fellow student Samuel Goudsmit proposed that electrons in atoms can have intrinsic spin angular momentum as well as orbital angular momentum. Paul Dirac's theory of relativistic quantum mechanics later showed that spin is an intrinsic property of electrons.
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