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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Germany in 1888, Otto Stern built his career around the molecular ray method, a technique that let him interrogate matter at scales most physicists couldn't touch. Between 1925 and 1945, the Nobel committee received his name 82 times, a tally second only to one other scientist in history. In 1943, they finally awarded him the prize in physics for developing that method and for discovering the magnetic moment of the proton — a measurement that cracked open quantum mechanics further than theory alone could manage. He died in August 1969, decades after the experiments that made him impossible to ignore.