Arnold Sommerfeld
Arnold Sommerfeld
Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld in 1897.
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a German theoretical physicist who pioneered developments in atomic and quantum physics, and also educated and mentored many students for the new era of theoretical physics
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Born
Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld 5 December 1868 Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia
Died
26 April 1951 (aged 82) Munich, West Germany
Nationality
German
Known for
Sommerfeld expansion Sommerfeld effect Sommerfeld identity Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement Sommerfeld–Runge method Sommerfeld–Wilson quantization Sommerfeld–Bohr theory Sommerfeld's approximation Sommerfeld
Fields
Physics
Alma mater
University of Königsberg
Awards
Matteucci Medal (1924) Max-Planck Medal (1931) Lorentz Medal (1939) Oersted Medal (1949) Fellow of the Royal Society
Institutions
University of Göttingen Technische Universität Clausthal University of Aachen University of Munich
adultbasic
Germany
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 Karl Herzfeld Helmut Hönl Ludwig Hopf Walther Kossel
era
1800+
Influenced
John Bardeen Léon Brillouin
Other notable students
Herbert Kroemer Linus Pauling Isidor I. Rabi Walter Heitler Werner Romberg Max von Laue William Allis Carl Eckart Edwin C. Kemble William V. Houston Edward Condon Philip M. Morse Howard Robertson Wojciech
Thesis
The arbitrary functions in mathematical physics (1891)