| Ernst Emil Alexander Back |
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He was born in Freiburg and attended school in Strasbourg until 1900 . From 1902 until 1906 he studied law in Strasbourg, Munich , and Berlin . He then worked in the legal profession in Alsace-Lorraine until 1909 , then took a leave to study physics in Tübingen . He retired from the legal profession in 1912 , and earned his Ph.D. in 1913 . His thesis, titled ''Zur Prestonschen Regel'', was on the subject of what would later be called the Paschen-Back Effect , and was named after Back and Friedrich Paschen . Between 1914 and 1918 he served with the German Army during World War I . Following this conflict he became head of a Veifa-Werke laboratory in Frankfurt Am Main , a company that produced electrical and X-ray equipment. In 1920 he left to become an assistant at the Physics Institute in Tübingen . He was promoted to professor in 1926 at Hohenheim University , and became a full professor in 1929 . He remained at this post until 1936 when he returned to become a professor at Tübingen. From 1926 until 1927 Samuel Abraham Goudsmit worked with Professor Back to make the first measurement of nuclear spin and its Zeeman Effect . He retired in 1948 , and passed away in Munich over a decade later. The Back Crater on the Moon was named in his memory. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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