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Arnold Sommerfeld's mother was Cäcile Matthias and his father was Franz Sommerfeld. Franz was a medical doctor who came from a leading Königsberg family. Franz was 48 years old when Arnold was born while his wife Cäcile was 29; they had been married for six years.
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His mother Cäcilie Matthias (1839–1902) was the daughter of a Potsdam builder. His father Franz Sommerfeld (1820–1906) was a physician from a leading family in Königsberg, where Arnold's grandfather had resettled from the hinterland in 1822 for a career as Court Postal Secretary in the service of the Kingdom of Prussia.
Arnold Sommerfeld was born, to parents Cäcile Matthias and Franz Sommerfeld, on 5 December 1868, in the East Prussian city of Königsberg. Franz who belonged to an affluent and influential family was a medical practitioner.
Jul 26, 2023 · OSA Honorary Member Arnold Sommerfeld was born 5 December 1868 in Konigsberg, Prussia. His parents encouraged Sommerfeld’s intellectual curiosity and he did well in his studies. At the University of Konigsberg he chose to concentrate on mathematics.
Jan 1, 2013 · When Arnold Sommerfeld was born in 1868, his uncle’s tragic death was still fresh in family memory. As his younger brother, Arnold’s father, Franz Sommerfeld (1820–1906), had been especially close to the unfortunate Wilhelm.
Nov 20, 2014 · Sommerfeld was the teacher and mentor of a large number of exceptional theoretical physicists who studied with him either as doctoral or post-doctoral students 1; and among these, Peter Debye, Max von Laue, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, Linus Pauling and Hans Bethe became Nobel laureates.
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Arnold Sommerfeld (born Dec. 5, 1868, Königsberg, Prussia [now Kaliningrad, Russia]—died April 26, 1951, Munich) was a German physicist whose atomic model permitted the explanation of fine-structure spectral lines.
