:otto stern was also the penname of german women's rights activist louise otto-peters (1819â1895).   otto stern (17 february 1888 â 17 august 1969) was a german physicist and nobel laureate in physics. ==biography== stern was born into a jewish family (father oskar stern and mother eugenia nÃ©e rosenthal) in sohrau (now Å»ory) in upper silesia, the german empire's kingdom of prussia (now in poland). he studied at breslau, now wrocÅaw 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 university of rostock, which he left in 1923 to work at the newly founded institut fÃ¼r physikalische chemie at the university of hamburg. thumb|left|plaque on the wall of what are now the physics institutes of hamburg university, commemorating stern's tenure 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. as an experimental physicist stern contributed to the discovery of spin quantization in the sternâgerlach experiment with walther gerlach in february 1922 at the physikalischer verein in frankfurt am main;walther gerlach & otto stern, "das magnetische moment des silberatoms", zeitschrift fÃ¼r physik, v9, n1, pp. 353â355 (1922).{{cite web | author=friedrich, bretislav; herschbach dudley | title=stern and gerlach: how a bad cigar helped reorient atomic physics | url=http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-56/iss-12/p53.html | work=physics today |date=december 2003 | 
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