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    Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld, ForMemRS (German: [ˈzɔmɐˌfɛlt]; 5 December 1868 – 26 April 1951) was a German theoretical physicist who pioneered developments...
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    atomic nucleus. Bohr–Sommerfeld theory is named after Danish physicist Niels Bohr and German physicist Arnold Sommerfeld. Sommerfeld argued that if electronic...
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  • premised on the Arnold Sommerfeld enhancements to the Bohr model of the atom. The main tool of the old quantum theory was the Bohr–Sommerfeld quantization...
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  • carriers in a metallic solid. It was developed in 1927, principally by Arnold Sommerfeld, who combined the classical Drude model with quantum mechanical Fermi–Dirac...
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    with a relative uncertainty of 1.5×10−10. The constant was named by Arnold Sommerfeld, who introduced it in 1916 when extending the Bohr model of the atom...
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  • the electrons in light atoms:" The shell terminology comes from Arnold Sommerfeld's modification of the 1913 Bohr model. During this period Bohr was...
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  • normally specified by the designer. The Sommerfeld number is named after Arnold Sommerfeld (1868–1951). The Sommerfeld Number is typically defined by the following...
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    Physics is a six-volume series of physics textbooks translated from Arnold Sommerfeld's classic German texts Vorlesungen über Theoretische Physik. The series...
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  • stability are. The equation is named after William McFadden Orr and Arnold Sommerfeld, who derived it at the beginning of the 20th century. The equation...
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  • A Sommerfeld expansion is an approximation method developed by Arnold Sommerfeld for a certain class of integrals which are common in condensed matter...
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  • optics by taking the limit of zero wavelength was first described by Arnold Sommerfeld and J. Runge in 1911. Their derivation was based on an oral remark...
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    Arnold Sommerfeld was a German theoretical physicist whom the following is named after: Sommerfeld coefficient Sommerfeld constant (α) Sommerfeld expansion...
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    to the boarding house was Paul Peter Ewald, a doctoral student of Arnold Sommerfeld on loan to Hilbert at Göttingen as a special assistant for physics...
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    Émile Roux received 115 nominations in physiology or medicine, and Arnold Sommerfeld received 84 in physics. These are the three most nominated scientists...
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    depends on the medium’s conductivity. Arising from original analysis by Arnold Sommerfeld and Jonathan Zenneck of the problem of wave propagation over a lossy...
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    and mathematics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich under Arnold Sommerfeld and Wilhelm Wien and at the Georg-August University of Göttingen with...
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    introduced by George Stokes in 1851, but the Reynolds number was named by Arnold Sommerfeld in 1908 after Osborne Reynolds (1842–1912), who popularized its use...
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  • operator was found by many theoretical physicists, including Niels Bohr, Arnold Sommerfeld, Erwin Schrödinger, and Eugene Wigner. Its existence and form is sometimes...
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  • lead to a paradox of causality, which was described by Einstein and Arnold Sommerfeld in 1910 as a means "to telegraph into the past". The same thought...
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    under Arnold Sommerfeld, where he received his PhD in July 1921 for his thesis on the quantum theory of ionized diatomic hydrogen (H+ 2). Sommerfeld asked...
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  • in stronger vibrations of the table. It is named after Arnold Sommerfeld. In 1902, A. Sommerfeld analyzed the vibrations caused by a motor driving an unbalanced...
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  • particular solution to the Helmholtz equation. It was introduced by Arnold Sommerfeld in 1912 and is closely related to the limiting absorption principle...
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    theses of the mathematicians David Hilbert, Hermann Minkowski, and Arnold Sommerfeld. In 1882, Lindemann published the result for which he is best known...
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  • to the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) to study under Arnold Sommerfeld. Wentzel was awarded his doctorate in 1921 and completed his Habilitation...
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  • Sommerfeld as a surname may refer to: Arnold Sommerfeld (1868–1951), German physicist Felix A. Sommerfeld (1879–after 1930), German secret service agent...
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    theoretical physicist Arnold Sommerfeld, who later claimed that his most important discovery was Peter Debye. In 1906, Sommerfeld received an appointment...
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    Oliver Heaviside in papers published between 1888 and 1889 and by Arnold Sommerfeld in 1904, but both had been quickly dismissed following the relativity...
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  • The Sommerfeld identity is a mathematical identity, due Arnold Sommerfeld, used in the theory of propagation of waves, e i k R R = ∫ 0 ∞ I 0 ( λ r ) e...
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  • was first done by Wolfgang Pauli in his doctoral dissertation under Arnold Sommerfeld, a study of the first ion of molecular hydrogen, namely the hydrogen...
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    was organizing the German mathematical encyclopedia, he assigned Arnold Sommerfeld to standardize vector notation. In 1950, when Academic Press published...
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