Arnold Sommerfeld
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Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld 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 the
Sommerfeld, 1920s
Sommerfeld (rightmost) with Johanna and her sister who married Ludwig Rhumbler at the double wedding of 1897. Willy Höpfner, brother of Johanna at centre.
Arnold Sommerfeld, Stuttgart 1935
Sommerfeld's grave at the Munich Nordfriedhof
Wolfgang Pauli
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Wolfgang Ernst Pauli was an Austrian theoretical physicist and a pioneer of quantum mechanics. In 1945, after having been nominated by Albert Einstein, Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics "for t
Arnold Sommerfeld
…theoretical physics, became the prime mover, and experimental physics was used to verify or advance theory. After getting their doctorates with Sommerfeld, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg and Walter Heitler became Born's assistants and made significant contributions to the development of quantum mechanics, which was…
Pauli in 1945
Wolfgang Pauli lecturing (1929)
Wolfgang Pauli, c. 1924