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Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science

Volume 62, 2012

Electron Spin and Its History

Abstract

The history of electron spin is summarized. Topics include the discovery of electron spin, the birth of quantum electrodynamics, the invention of magnetic resonance, the invention of renormalization, the anomalous magnetic moment of the electron in experiment and theory, and searches for the electron electric dipole moment.

Keyword(s): g-value anomaly, quantum electrodynamics, spin electric dipole moment, spin magnetic dipole moment
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