Spinning Electrons and the Structure of Spectra Nature 117 No. 2938 pp. 264–265, February 20, 1926 [FIRST EDITION, ORIGINAL JOURNAL ISSUE IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS]
London: Macmillan, 1926. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, ORIGINAL WRAPS, OF THE 1ST ANNOUNCEMENT IN ENGLISH OF THE CONCEPT OF ‘INTRINSIC SPIN’’ OF THE ELECTRON. While still students studying at Leiden under Paul Ehrenfest, two Dutch physicists, George Uhlenbeck and Samuel Goudsmit postulated that the electron must have an intrinsic angular..... More