Mathematician:Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld
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Mathematician
German theoretical physicist who pioneered developments in atomic and quantum physics.
Nationality
German
History
- Born: 5 December 1868 in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia)
- Died: 26 April 1951 in Munich, Germany
Theorems and Definitions
- Sommerfeld Number
- Sommerfeld Constant (better known as the Fine-Structure Constant)
- Bohr-Sommerfeld Quantization (with Niels Henrik David Bohr)
- Grimm-Sommerfeld Rule (with H.G. Grimm)
- Orr-Sommerfeld Equation (with William McFadden Orr)
- Sommerfeld-Watson Transform (with George Neville Watson)
- Sommerfeld-Bohr Theory (with Niels Henrik David Bohr)
Results named for Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld can be found here.
Definitions of concepts named for Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld can be found here.
Publications
- 1891: Die willkürlichen Functionen in der mathematischen Physik
- March 1895: The mathematical theory of diffraction
- 1921: Über reguläre und irreguläre Dublett (with Gregor Wentzel)