biography
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Sommerfeld, Arnold (Johannes Wilhelm)
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pronunciation:
[zomerfelt]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1868–1951)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). He studied at Königsberg and became professor of mathematics at Clausthal (1897), and professor of physics at Aachen (1900) and Munich (1906). With Felix Klein he developed the theory of the gyroscope. He researched into a variety of problems, including X-ray and electron diffraction, and radio waves. He is best known for his work on the Bohr atomic model, and the notion of elliptical rather than circular electron orbits. |
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