Velocity Selector
date: label: date made
content: 1930-1945
notes: label: Description
content: Otto Stern (1888-1969) was a German-Jewish physicist who became a professor at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh and won a Nobel Prize. Immanuel Estermann (1900-1973) was a Jewish physicist who worked with Stern in Hamburg and followed him to the United States. Working together, Stern and Estermann conducted molecular beam experiments. This velocity selector is part of their experimental apparatus.
label: Description
content: Ref: "Dr. Otto Stern, Winner in 1943 of Nobel Prize for Physics, Dies," New York Times (Aug. 19, 1969), p. 43.
label: Description
content: "Dr. Immanuel Estermann, Physics Professor, Is Dead," New York Times (April 1, 1973), p. 79.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Jews
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Carnegie Institute of Technology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.321542
label: catalog number
content: 321542
label: accession number
content: 244963
objectType: label: Object Name
content: velocity selector
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 4 15/16 in x 3 1/2 in; 8.89 cm x 12.54125 cm x 8.89 cm