10 Facts About Otto Stern

Otto Stern was a German-American physicist and Nobel laureate in physics.

Otto Stern's father was Oskar Stern, a mill owner, who had been living in Breslau since 1892.

Otto Stern had a brother, Kurt, who became a noted botanist in Frankfurt, and three sisters.

Otto Stern studied in Freiburg im Breisgau, Munich and Breslau.

Otto Stern then followed Albert Einstein to Charles University in Prague and in 1913 to ETH Zurich.

Otto Stern served in World War I doing meteorological work on the Russian front while still continuing his studies and in 1915 received his Habilitation at the University of Frankfurt.

Otto Stern was awarded the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physics, the first to be awarded since 1939.

Otto Stern was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1945 and the American Philosophical Society in 1946.

Otto Stern was a regular visitor to the physics colloquium at Berkeley.

Otto Stern died of a heart attack in Berkeley on 17 August 1969.