Download e-book for kindle: Arnold Sommerfeld: Science, Life and Turbulent Times by Michael Eckert

By Michael Eckert

ISBN-10: 1461474604

ISBN-13: 9781461474609

the topic of the booklet is a biography of the theoretical physicist Arnold Sommerfeld (1868-1951). even supposing Sommerfeld is known as a quantum theorist for the elaboration of the semi-classical atomic idea (Bohr-Sommerfeld version, Sommerfeld's fine-structure constant), his position within the heritage of contemporary physics isn't really restrained to atoms and quanta.
Sommerfeld left his mark within the heritage of arithmetic, fluid mechanics, a few actual subdisciplines and, particularly, as founding father of a most efficient "school" (Peter Debye, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, Linus Pauling and Hans Bethe have been his students, to call basically the Nobel laureates between them). This biography is to a wide quantity according to basic resource fabric (correspondence, diaries, unpublished manuscripts). it's going to be of specific curiosity to scholars who're willing to grasp extra concerning the ancient roots of contemporary technology.
Sommerfeld lived via turbulent occasions of German heritage (Wilhelmian Empire, Weimar Republic, Nazi period). His lifestyles, for that reason, illustrates how technological know-how and scientists practice in altering social environments. From this angle, the biography also needs to allure readers with a normal curiosity within the background of technological know-how and technology.

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