Arnold Sommerfeld
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Arnold Sommerfeld was a German physicist who lived from 1868 to 1951 and made important contributions to the understanding of atomic structure and quantum mechanics. His work helped bridge classical and modern physics, and he was also a highly influential teacher whose students went on to make major discoveries in physics.
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- Born
- 1868
- Died
- 1951
- Works
- 42
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- Zur elektronentheorie ...
- Zu Max Plancks sechzigstem Geburtstag
- Die Bedeutung des Wirkungsquantums für unperiodische Molekularprozesse in der Physik
- Mechanik
- Thermodynamik und Statistik
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- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,176x
- Model Evaluation Guidelines for Systematic Quantification of Accuracy in Watershed Simulations
· 2007 · cited 9,961x
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Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld ( German: [ˈaʁnɔlt ˈzɔmɐˌfɛlt]; 5 December 1868 – 26 April 1951) was a German theoretical physicist who pioneered developments in both atomic and quantum physics, and also educated and mentored many students for the new era of theoretical physics.
Sommerfeld served as doctoral advisor and postdoctoral advisor to seven Nobel Prize winners and supervised at least 30 other famous physicists and chemists.
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1868 births1951 deaths19th-century German physicists20th-century German physicistsAcademic staff of LMU MunichAcademic staff of RWTH Aachen UniversityAcademic staff of the Clausthal University of TechnologyAcademic staff of the University of GöttingenArnold SommerfeldForeign associates of the National Academy of SciencesForeign members of the Royal Society