Procopiu–Bohr magneton
Magnetón de Procopiu-Bohr
- Date
- 1911-1913 · confidence medium
- Place
- Iași, Romania
- Credited to
- Ștefan Procopiu; independently obtained by Niels Bohr in 1913
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What was discovered
Romanian physicist Ștefan Procopiu obtained the electron's natural unit of magnetic moment before Niels Bohr reached the same value, in the summer of 1913, as a consequence of his atomic model; Wolfgang Pauli formalized the name "Bohr magneton" in 1920.
In the Romanian literature the unit is sometimes called the "Bohr–Procopiu magneton" in recognition of Procopiu's priority; elsewhere it is known simply as the Bohr magneton.
What it led to
- Standard unit of magnetic moment in atomic and particle physics
- Study of quantum magnetism and the Zeeman effect