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What are some of the earliest papers about electron spin? Who were the scientists to develop the concept and why?

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    $\begingroup$ S. Goudsmit and G. Uhlenbeck, Naturwiss. 13, 953 (1925); Nature 117, 264 (1926). nature.com/articles/117264a0 $\endgroup$
    – Seth Whitsitt
    Jan 13, 2020 at 6:26
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    $\begingroup$ You may be interested in the book "The Story of Spin" by Sin-itiro Tomonaga (who won the Nobel Prize with Feynman) $\endgroup$
    – user1379857
    Jan 13, 2020 at 6:55
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    $\begingroup$ W. Pauli, “Zur Quantenmechanik des magnetischen Elektrons”, Zeitschrift für Physik 43, 601 (1927). I think there should be also an English translation. $\endgroup$
    – Jon
    Jan 13, 2020 at 7:34
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    $\begingroup$ Wikipedia is your friend. $\endgroup$
    – my2cts
    Jan 13, 2020 at 8:33
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    $\begingroup$ See this paper and the references therein arxiv.org/abs/0710.3128 $\endgroup$
    – alanf
    Jan 13, 2020 at 9:23

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