sommerfeld in A Sentence

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    But in 2015 he decided to settle down and married the model of Ria Sommerfeld.

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    With the rise of the Nazi party in Germany, however, Sommerfeld was forced to watch many of his esteemed colleagues have to flee the country.

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    Sommerfeld died on April 26, 1951 at the age of 82 as a result of a traffic accident that occurred while taking his grandchildren for a walk.

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    After a year of compulsive military service ended in 1893, unlike so many academics of his era, Sommerfeld continued to serve as a volunteer for the next eight years on the side.

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    However, although he was nominated an astounding and record setting 84 times(the only other person close is Otto Stern, who was nominated 82 times before finally winning in 1943), Sommerfeld never won a Nobel Prize.

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    Famed Jewish mathematician, physicist, and Nobel Prize winner Max Born(who was forced to flee Germany in 1933) went on about Sommerfeld's talent for cultivating young minds who so often went on to great scientific achievements of their own:.

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    The loss of so many of its best men in this way together with World War II, destroyed the scientific strength of Germany, and Sommerfeld felt obliged to continue teaching until 1947, long after the usual retirement age of 65.

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    Mathematician Morris Kline further stated of Sommerfeld that he“was at the forefront of the work in electromagnetic theory, relativity and quantum theory and he was the great systematizer and teacher who inspired many of the most creative physicists in the first thirty years of this century.”.

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    However, as Heisenberg, like Sommerfeld, was considered by the Nazi party to be a Jewish sympathizer, ultimately the decidedly unaccomplished anti-Semite Wilhem Muller, with a lot of help from the Reich Education Ministry, was very controversial appointed to replace Sommerfeld as Professor of Theoretical Physics, despite Muller not even being a theoretical physicist.

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    While in Munich, Sommerfeld also mentored Wolfgang Pauli on his thesis on quantum theory, and Pauli also went on to win a Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1945, for his discovery of the eponymous Pauli exclusion principle(which stated that two or more identical fermions can not be in the same quantum state within a quantum system at the same time).

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    While in Munich, Sommerfeld also mentored Wolfgang Pauli on his thesis on quantum theory, and Pauli also went on to win a Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1945, for his discovery of the eponymous Pauli exclusion principle(which stated that two or more identical fermions can not be in the same quantum state within a quantum system at the same time)… MUCH MORE.

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    While his own direct contributions to advancing the world of physics were prodigious, including his pioneering work in quantum theory, it was arguably for his teaching ability that Sommerfeld was most revered in his lifetime, with Albert Einstein once remarking,“What I especially admire about you is that you have, as it were, pounded out of the soil such a large number of young talents.”.

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