Arnold Sommerfeld (Record no. 95929)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781461474616
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Standard number or code 10.1007/978-1-4614-7461-6
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Classification number QC173.96-174.52
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Subject category code PHQ
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Subject category code SCI057000
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Classification number 530.12
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Eckert, Michael.
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Title Arnold Sommerfeld
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Remainder of title Science, Life and Turbulent Times 1868-1951 /
Statement of responsibility, etc by Michael Eckert.
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Extent XIV, 471 p. 35 illus., 9 illus. in color.
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Formatted contents note 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.
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Summary, etc 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.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Physics.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Quantum theory.
650 14 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Physics.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Quantum Physics.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Mathematical Physics.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Fluid- and Aerodynamics.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.
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Title Springer eBooks
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International Standard Book Number 9781461474609
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Uniform Resource Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7461-6
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