One hundred years ago Alfred Land\'e unriddled the Anomalous Zeeman Effect and presaged Electron Spin
Horst Schmidt-B\"ocking, Bretislav Friedrich

TL;DR
This paper commemorates Alfred Landé's century-old work on the anomalous Zeeman Effect, reconstructing his ideas within historical atomic models and highlighting his influence on quantum physics development.
Contribution
It reconstructs Landé's original insights on atomic angular momentum coupling and demonstrates their impact on the evolution of quantum theory, especially Pauli's exclusion principle.
Findings
Landé's coupling model explained the anomalous Zeeman Effect
His ideas influenced the development of quantum physics
Historical reconstruction of Landé's contributions
Abstract
In order to commemorate Alfred Land\'e's unriddling of the anomalous Zeeman Effect a century ago, we reconstruct his seminal contribution to atomic physics in light of the atomic models available at the time. Land\'e recognized that the coupling of quantized electronic angular momenta via their vector addition within an atom was the origin of all the apparent mysteries of atomic structure as manifested by the anomalous Zeeman effect. We show to which extent Land\'e's ideas influenced the development of quantum physics, particularly Wolfgang Pauli's path to the exclusion principle. We conclude with Land\'e's brief biography.
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