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If I knew something about it, I wouldn't lecture on it!

Arnold Sommerfeld

If you want to be a physicist, you must do three things—first, study mathematics, second, study more mathematics, and third, do the same.

Arnold Sommerfeld

Reversible processes are not, in fact, processes at all, they are sequences of states of equilibrium. The processes which we encounter in real life are always irreversible processes.

Arnold Sommerfeld

The science of thermodynamics introduces a new concept, that of temperature.

Arnold Sommerfeld

The twofold nature of light as a light-wave and as a light-quantum is thus extended to electrons and, further, to atoms: their wave-nature is asserting itself more and more, theoretically and experimentally, as concurrent with their corpuscular nature.

Arnold Sommerfeld

Arnold Sommerfeld

Arnold Sommerfeld

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Born: December 5, 1868

Died: April 26, 1951 (aged 82)

Bio: Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld was a German theoretical physicist who pioneered developments in atomic and quantum physics, and also educated and mentored a large number of students for the new era of theoretical physics.

Known for:

Lectures on theoretical physics
Mechanics of Deformable Bodies (1950)
Partial Differential Equations in Physics (1949)
Mathematical Theory of Diffraction
Mechanics (1950)

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