Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld
1868-1951
German physicist whose investigations of atomic spectra led him to revise Niels Bohr's atomic theory (1916). Sommerfeld replaced Bohr's circu...
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Sommerfeld was born in Königsberg, Prussia, on December 5, 1868. He was educated at Königsberg University and then taught at Göttingen, Clausthal, and Aachen. In 1906, he succeeded Bolt...
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Sommerfeld was born in Königsberg, Prussia, on December 5, 1868. He was educated at Königsberg University and then taught at Göttingen, Clausthal, and Aachen. In 1906, he succeeded Bolt...
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