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page 1Arnold Sommerfeld
Arnold Sommerfeld
German physicist (1868-1951)
fine-structure constant
physical constant quantifying the strength of the electromagnetic interaction between elementary charged particles
free electron model
a simple model for the behaviour of valence electrons in a crystal structure of a metallic solid
Bohr-Sommerfeld atom model
extension of the Bohr model to allow elliptical orbits of electrons around an atomic nucleus