Wolfgang Pauli introduced the Bohr magneton as a fundamental unit of magnetic moment during an effort to find a quantum basis for magnetism, as Davide Castelvecchi recounts.
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Castelvecchi, D. Just a moment. Nat. Phys. 16, 994 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-020-1022-6
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