Stern-Gerlach experiment
Urs Schreiber
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The Stern-Gerlach experiment showed that electrons are spinors. It was the first experimental observation of the elementary spin of fermions.
Via the Pauli exclusion principle/spin-statistics theorem, this implies that wavefunctions depending on fermionic variable commute with each...