milestones timeline

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• 1896

  • Zeeman effect (milestone 1)

• 1922

  • Stern–Gerlach experiment (milestone 2)

• 1925

  • The spinning electron (milestone 3)

• 1928

  • Dirac equation (milestone 4)

    Quantum magnetism (milestone 5)

• 1932

  • Isospin (milestone 6)

• 1940

  • Spin–statistics connection (milestone 7)

• 1946

  • Nuclear magnetic resonance (milestone 8)

• 1950s

  • Development of magnetic devices (milestone 9)

• 1950-1951

  • NMR for chemical analysis (milestone 10)
     

• 1951

  • Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen argument in spin variables (milestone 11)

• 1964

  • Kondo effect (milestone 12)

• 1971

  • Supersymmetry (milestone 13)

• 1972

  • Superfluid helium-3 (milestone 14)

• 1973

  • Magnetic resonance imaging (milestone 15)

• 1975-1976

  • NMR for protein structure determination (milestone 16)
     

• 1978

  • Dilute magnetic semiconductors (milestone 17)

• 1988

  • Giant magnetoresistance (milestone 18)

• 1990

  • Functional MRI (milestone 19)

    Proposal for spin field-effect transistor (milestone 20)

• 1991

  • Magnetic resonance force microscopy (milestone 21)

• 1996

  • Mesoscopic tunnelling of magnetization (milestone 22)

• 1997

  • Semiconductor spintronics (milestone 23)

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