Arnold Sommerfeld
1868 CE–1951 CE · Königsberg
Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld (German: [ˈaʁnɔlt ˈzɔmɐˌfɛlt]; 5 December 1868 – 26 April 1951) was a German theoretical physicist who pioneered developments in both atomic and quantum physics, and also educated and mentored many students for the new era of theoretical physics. Sommerfeld served as doctoral advisor and postdoctoral advisor to seven Nobel Prize winners and supervised at least 30 other famous physicists and chemists. Sommerfeld introduced the second quantum number, azimuthal quantum number, and the third quantum number, magnetic quantum number. He also introduced the fine-structure constant and pioneered X-ray wave theory.
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KönigsbergקעניגסבערגEast Prussia
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Königsberg (today Kaliningrad, Russia), then the capital of East Prussia, had a Jewish community of note and was an important center of Hebrew printing in the modern era. Rabbi Yisrael Salanter, founder of the Mussar movement, spent his final years working to strengthen Orthodox Jewish life in Germany and Prussia and died in Königsberg in 1883.
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- Max Planck· 1858 CE–1947 CE
- Franz Boas· 1858 CE–1942 CE
- David Hilbert· 1862 CE–1943 CE
- Walther Nernst· 1864 CE–1941 CE
- Hantaro Nagaoka· 1865 CE–1950 CE
- Jacques Hadamard· 1865 CE–1963 CE
- Thomas Hunt Morgan· 1866 CE–1945 CE
- Marie Curie· 1867 CE–1934 CE
- Robert Millikan· 1868 CE–1953 CE
- Karl Landsteiner· 1868 CE–1943 CE
- Fritz Haber· 1868 CE–1934 CE
- Ernest Rutherford· 1871 CE–1937 CE
- Tullio Levi-Civita· 1873 CE–1941 CE
- Chaim Weizmann· 1874 CE–1952 CE
- Guglielmo Marconi· 1874 CE–1937 CE
- Carl Jung· 1875 CE–1961 CE
- G. H. Hardy· 1877 CE–1947 CE
- Albert Einstein· 1879 CE–1955 CE
- Paul Ehrenfest· 1880 CE–1933 CE
- Emmy Noether· 1882 CE–1935 CE
- Arthur Eddington· 1882 CE–1944 CE
- Robert Goddard· 1882 CE–1945 CE
- Srinivasa Ramanujan· 1887 CE–1920 CE
- Stefan Banach· 1892 CE–1945 CE
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- Kemal Ataturk· 1881 CE–1938 CE
- Faisal I of Iraq· 1885 CE–1933 CE
- Mahatma Gandhi· 1869 CE–1948 CE
- Victor Emmanuel III· 1869 CE–1947 CE
- Reza Shah Pahlavi· 1878 CE–1944 CE
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah· 1876 CE–1948 CE
- Franklin D. Roosevelt· 1882 CE–1945 CE
- Ibn Saud (Abdulaziz Al Saud)· 1875 CE–1953 CE
- Benito Mussolini· 1883 CE–1945 CE
- Neville Chamberlain· 1869 CE–1940 CE
- Karl I· 1887 CE–1922 CE
- Joseph Stalin· 1878 CE–1953 CE
- Hideki Tojo· 1884 CE–1948 CE
- Calvin Coolidge· 1872 CE–1933 CE
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