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Arnold Sommerfeld
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Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld, ForMemRS[1] (5 December 1868 – 26 Aprile 1951) wis a German theoretical physicist wha pioneered developments in atomic an quantum physics, an forby eddicatit an mentored a lairge nummer o students for the new era o theoretical physics.
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![]() Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld (1868–1951) | |
Born | Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld 5 December 1868(1868-12-05) Königsberg, Kinrick o Proushie |
Dee'd | 26 Apryle 1951(1951-04-26) (aged 82) Munich, Wast Germany |
Residence | Germany |
Naitionality | German |
Alma mater | Varsity o Königsberg |
Kent for | Drude–Sommerfeld model Fine-structur constant Sommerfeld identity Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement Sommerfeld–Wilson quantisation Sommerfeld–Bohr theory |
Awairds | Matteucci Medal (1924) Max-Planck Medal (1931) Lorentz Medal (1939) Oersted Medal (1949) Fellae o the Royal Society[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | Varsity o Göttingen Technische Universität Clausthal Varsity o Aachen Varsity o Munich |
Doctoral advisor | Ferdinand von Lindemann |
Doctoral students | Werner Heisenberg Wolfgang Pauli Peter Debye Paul Sophus Epstein Hans Bethe Ernst Guillemin Karl Bechert Paul Peter Ewald Herbert Fröhlich Erwin Fues Helmut Hönl Ludwig Hopf Walther Kossel Adolf Kratzer Alfred Landé Otto Laporte Wilhelm Lenz Rudolf Peierls Walter Rogowski Rudolf Seeliger Heinrich Welker Gregor Wentzel |
Ither notable students | Herbert Kroemer Linus Pauling Walter Heitler Werner Romberg |
Influenced | John Bardeen[2] Léon Brillouin Karl Herzfeld |
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