Arnold Sommerfeld
1868 – 1951 · aged 83
German physicist (1868-1951)
- Born
- 5 Dec 1868 · Königsberg
- Died
- 26 Apr 1951 · Munich
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 5 Dec 1868BornBorn in Königsberg
- 1919 – 1920RolePresident
- 1924AwardMatteucci Medal
- 1926AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
- 1931AwardBavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
- 1931AwardMax Planck Medal
- 1939AwardLorentz Medal
- 1949AwardOersted Medal
- 26 Apr 1951DiedDied in Munich
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1868 – 1951).
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
Biography
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.
Sommerfeld introduced the second quantum number, azimuthal quantum number, and the third quantum number, magnetic quantum number. He also introduced the fine-structure constant and pioneered X-ray wave theory.
Text from the Wikipedia article Arnold Sommerfeld, CC BY-SA 4.0
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