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PROF. ABNOLD SOMMEBFELD, professor of theoretical physics in the University of Munich, will celebrate his seventieth birthday on December 5. He is able to look back on a long and successful career in mathematical physics, both in research and in teaching. During the time of his tenure of the chair in Munich, where he succeeded Boltzmann in 1905, his modest institute became the centre for students of physical theory, many of whom went there from abroad for a period under his inspired guidance. Among his numerous pupils who now occupy high positions in the academic world, Debye, Pauli and Heisenberg may be mentioned.
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Prof. A. Sommerfeld. Nature 142, 987 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142987c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/142987c0