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  title info:
    title: Arnold Sommerfeld
    sub title: Science, Life and Turbulent Times 1868-1951
  name:
    name part: Eckert, Michael.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 471 p. 35 illus., 9 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Arnold Sommerfeld (1868-1951) belongs with Max Planck (1858-1947), Albert Einstein (1879-1955) and Niels Bohr (1885-1962) among the founders of modern theoretical physics, a science that developed into a budding discipline during his lifetime. Sommerfeld witnessed many of the most dramatic scientific, cultural and political events of this era. His correspondence with his family offers a vivid testament to the challenges and joys of a life in science. This biography attempts to reconstruct Sommerfeld’s life and work not only from the perspective of his achievements in theoretical physics but also with the goal of portraying the career of a scientist within the social and political environment in which it evolved. It is based to a large extent on Sommerfeld’s voluminous correspondence, which sheds light both on his private and scientific life. Furthermore, it provides an authentic view on the circumstances that shaped Sommerfeld’s career in different places – Königsberg, Göttingen, Clausthal, Aachen, Munich – and in different institutional and disciplinary settings – mineralogy, mathematics, engineering, physics. Although this biography is not a study of Sommerfeld’s school, it also renders transparent what made this group of physicists so unique and gave its founder the aura of a charismatic teacher. This becomes particularly evident in the reverence with which he was received by his hosts during his travels all over the world – travels that Sommerfeld perceived as cultural missions. International politics, personal zeal and scientific interests became closely entangled at such occasions. Such an entanglement is by no means uncommon in the history of science – but it is rarely observed so persistently as in Sommerfeld’s case.
  table of contents: Prologue -- Königsberg Roots -- Setting the Course -- Klein's Assistant -- Clausthal -- Aachen -- Munich -- Physics in War and Peace -- The Quantum Pope -- Wave Mechanics -- Cultural Ambassador -- Descent -- The Bitter Years -- Carrying On -- Legacy -- Epilogue -- Backmatter.
  note: by Michael Eckert.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical physics
  subject:
    topic: Gravitation
  subject:
    topic: Quantum physics
  subject:
    topic: Fluids
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Physics
  subject:
    topic: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical Physics
  subject:
    topic: Fluid- and Aerodynamics
  subject:
    topic: Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
  classification: QC173.96-174.52
  classification: 530.12
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