Arnold Sommerfeld

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Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld (1868-1951)
Birth date	5 December 1868
Birth place	Königsberg, Province of Prussia
Death date	26 April 1951(age 82)
Death place	Munich, Germany
Residence	Germany
Nationality	German
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of Göttingen Technische Universität Clausthal University of Aachen University of Munich
Alma mater	University of Königsberg
Doctoral advisor	Ferdinand von Lindemann
Doctoral students	Werner Heisenberg Wolfgang Pauli Peter Debye Paul Sophus Epstein Hans Bethe Ernst Guillemin Karl Bechert Paul Peter Ewald Herbert Fröhlich Erwin Fues Helmut Hönl Ludwig Hopf Walther Kossel Adolf Kratzer Alfred Landé Otto Laporte Wilhelm Lenz Rudolf Peierls Walter Rogowski Rudolf Seeliger Heinrich Welker Gregor Wentzel Erwin Fues
Notable students	Herbert Kroemer Linus Pauling Walter Heitler& Walter Romberg
Known for	Drude-Sommerfeld model Fine-structure constant Sommerfeld identity Sommerfeld-Kossel displacement Sommerfeld-Wilson quantization Sommerfeld-Bohr theory
Influenced	Léon Brillouin Karl Herzfeld
Notable awards	Matteucci Medal (1924) Max-Planck Medal (1931) Lorentz Medal (1939) Oersted Medal (1949)