Peter Debye
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Peter Joseph William Debye was a Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry.
Debye in 1912
Monument for Peter Debye in the Maastricht square that bears his name: Dipole moments (Felix van de Beek, 1998)
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
Peter Debye
…his first paper, a mathematically elegant solution of a problem involving eddy currents, in 1907. At Aachen, he studied under the theoretical physicist Arnold Sommerfeld, who later claimed that his most important discovery was Peter Debye. In 1906, Sommerfeld received an appointment at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität…
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