Does the Electron Have an Intrinsic Magnetic Moment?

1947 ◽  
Vol 72 (10) ◽  
pp. 984-984 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Breit
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Winklhofer ◽  
Henrik Mouritsen

Qin et al. (A magnetic protein compass, Nature Materials 15, 217-226, 2016) claim that "MagR is the first known protein that carries an intrinsic magnetic moment at ambient temperature". We show here that the claim must, unfortunately, be fundamentally wrong.


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