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232 x 163 mm. 8vo. pp. 1-32; 43-60. Navy cloth, gilt stamped spine. Ex library Carnegie Institution of Washington Mount Wilson Observatory with call number gilt stamped on spine and library blind-stamp on front free end paper. Clean copy, handsomely bound. FINE. RARE. FIRST EDITION OF THE REHABILITATION OF THE ELECTRON THEORY OF METALS. In the late 1920's and early 1930's the problem that drew most of Sommerfeld's interest was the joint application of wave mechanics and Fermi statistics to the behavior of electrons in metals. With the aid of his students, the American physicists William V. Houston and Carl Eckart (both Millikan disciples), Sommerfeld rehabilitated the electron theory of metals, which after a promising beginning at the turn of the century, had languished under classical statistics and mechanics. For the work of Houston and Eckart, see under their names in this issue of the Zeitschrift fur physik. DSB, XII, pp. 525-532. The following articles by important contributors are included in volume 47: with: JORDAN, Pasqual, (1902-1980) & Wolfgang PAULI, (1900-1958). "Zur quantenelektrodynamik ladungsfreier felder." In: Zeitschrift fur physik, 47 (1928), pp. 151-173. This was the first paper Wolfgang Pauli wrote on quantum electrodynamics. See Pais, Inward bound, pp. 332-333. with: JORDAN, Pasqual, (1902-1980) & Wolfgang PAULI, (1900-1958). "Uber das Paulische aquivalenzverbot." In: Zeitschrift fur physik, 47 (1928), pp. 631-651. "The Jordan-Wigner formalism set the stage for the field theory of the electron-positron." Pais, Inward bound, p. 340. with NEUMANN, John von, (1903-1957) & Eugene WIGNER, (1902-1995). "Zur erklarung einiger eigenschaften der spektren aus der quantenmechanik des drehelektrons." In: Zeitschrift fur physik, 47 (1928), pp. 203-220. Wigner and von Neumann were both born in Bucharest and had long been friends. They were close collaborators during the 1920s.

, original green 1/4 cloth and printed boards, quite worn and cover soiled, corners bruised, endpapers faded, some foxing, fair to good copy only. previous owner's name: John T. Tate. INSCRIBED Hn. John Tate / zur freundlichen Erinnerung / an meinen Besuch in / Minnesota University / A. Sommerfeld / Nov. 25, 22. SOMMERFELD, ARNOLD. Atombau und Spektrallinien. Braunschweig, F. Vieweg, 1922, 3. umgearbeitet Auflage, xi, 764pp. illus. 23 cm, . First edition was 1919.

(21 x 13,5 cm). VII, 923 S. Mit 3 Tafeln und Abbildungen. Pappband der Zeit mit aufgezogenem Original-Umschlag. Erste Ausgabe seiner wichtigen Arbeit. - "In late 1919 Sommerfeld took the first serious step towards attacking the problem of anomalous Zeeman effects in the Bohr-Sommerfeld theory. Upon a detailed analysis of the empirical data he formulated five 'rules' for the description and he introduced the 'inner' or 'hidden quantum numbers' of the atom" (Twentieth Century Physics, Vol. I, S. 162). - Stempel auf Titel. Papierbedingt stellenweise leicht gebräunt, sonst gut erhalten.

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8°. Mod. Kart. 2 Bll., 75 S., 2 Bll. Erste Ausgabe der Dissertation von Arnold Sommerfeld seinem Professor Ferdinand von Lindemann gewidmet, sehr selten. - Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld (1868 - 1951) "zählt neben Max Planck, Albert Einstein und Niels Bohr zu den Forschern, die zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts die moderne theoretische Physik mit ihren Grundpfeilern Quantenphysik und Relativitätstheorie schufen und zum Fundament der Physik machten. Er war sowohl als Forscher wie auch als akademischer Lehrer bedeutend. Sein Beitrag zur Wissenschaft bestand weniger in der Formulierung neuer, umwälzender physikalischer Theorien als vielmehr in der Anwendung fortschrittlicher mathematischer Methoden auf physikalische und technische Probleme. . Sommerfeld wurde insgesamt 81 Mal für den Nobelpreis vorgeschlagen (vorschlagsberechtigt sind nur wenige ausgewählte Personen, wie z. B. frühere Nobelpreisträger) häufiger als jeder andere Physiker vor oder nach ihm hat ihn aber nie erhalten. Auch als Hochschullehrer zählten mehr künftige Nobelpreisträger zu seinen Assistenten, Doktoranden oder Hörern, als bei jedem bisherigen Physik-Nobelpreisträger. Die so genannte Sommerfeldschule der Theoretischen Physik hat die Entwicklung ihrer Wissenschaft (insbesondere der Quantentheorie und deren Verbreitung) stark beeinflusst, sowohl wegen der Qualität ihrer Arbeiten wie auch durch viele Lehrstühle, die in Deutschland und den USA durch ihre Vertreter in der Folgezeit besetzt wurden" (Wikipedia Abruf vom 03.06.2020). - Gebräunt. Die rechte obere Ecke anfangs mit kl. hinterlegten Läsuren. *** *** Copyright: Matthaeus TRUPPE Buchhandlung & Antiquariat - Stubenberggasse 7 - A-8010 Graz - ++43 (0)316 - 829552 *** *** Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 600.

Die Naturwissenschaften, 15/41. - Berlin, 14. Oktober 1927, 4°, pp.825-840, orig. Broschur; St. a. Umschlag. First Edition and "First Appearance in print of Sommerfeld's famous paper on the electron theory of metals". *) "Sommerfeld used his special-topics course in summer 1927 to work out parts of his theory. Sommerfeld's method, as documented both in his first lecture and in the subsequent flood of articles, conference reports, and talks on the electron theory of metals, is characterized by its stubborn emphasis on wave-mechanical viewpoints, mathematical elegance, and optimism. He began his lecture by demonstrating that the De Broglie wavelength of the electrons at the Fermi-level (he called it "Halbwertsordinate" in a plot of f versus v, where f is the Fermi-Dirac distribution as a function of electron velocity) is of the same order of magnitude as the lattice constant, and he expressed his formulas for the Fermi-energy (he called it "Nullpunktsenergie") and the specific heat of the electron gas in terms of the De Broglie wavelength, giving them all a wave mechanical appearance. However, he did not make use of the identifications; there is no discussion of electron-lattice interactions." Michael Eckert: Propaganda in Science: Sommerfeld and the Spread of the Electron Theory of Metals. Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences , 17/2 (1987): pp. 191-233 Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld (1868-1951) theoretical physicist who pioneered developments in atomic and quantum physics, and also educated and mentored many students for the new era of theoretical physics. He served as doctoral supervisor for many Nobel Prize winners in physics and chemistry. He introduced the second quantum number (azimuthal quantum number) and the third quantum number (magnetic quantum number)[citation needed]. He also introduced the fine-structure constant and pioneered X-ray wave theory. *) Interlibrum 263-266 No.1058.

Proc. London Math. Soc., 28/599+600+601. - (1897), 8°, pp.395-429, orig. Broschur. First Edition - rare offprint "Extracted from the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Vol.XXVIII., Nos. 599, 600, 601." "In 1896 (Mathematische Theorie der Diffraktion. Math. Ann. 47 (October 1896), 317-374.) Arnold Sommerfeld (1868-1951) obtained an exact closed form solution to the problem of plane wave diffraction by a half plane. He used the method of images on Riemann surfaces corresponding to multivalued solutions of the reduced wave equation, and indicated how this method could be used to obtain exact closed form solution for the problem of diffraction by a wedge. The method of constructing the required many-valued solution of the wave equation was simplified in a subsequent paper, Sommerfeld (1897, Über verzweigte Potentiale in Raum. Proc. Lon. Math. Soc. (1) 28, 395-429.)." A.D. Rawlins, A Green's function for diffraction by a rational wedge. - TR/14/86 October 1986.

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1927. Lex8vo. In "Die Naturwissenschaften", 15. jahrgang, 1927. Entire volume offered bound in contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. Minor wear to upper capitals, otherwise a fine and clean copy. [Einstein:] Pp. 273-76" [Born:] Pp. 238-42 [Planck:] Pp. 529-31 [Sommerfeld:] Pp. 825-32 [Frisch:] Pp. 321-326 pp. 963-968. [Entire volume: XXV,(1),1000,16 pp.]. First edition of all papers. The Einstein paper is his contribution to the Anniversary volume of Newton's death. Frisch received the Nobel Prize for his works on animal psychology and behaviour in 1975.Weil No 158. - Planck: Akademie No. 165 - K. v.

Zustand: Very Good+. First Edition. First British edition. xiii, [1], 626, [2], 8 pp. Brown cloth with blind stamped front board, gilt lettered spine. A Very Good+ copy with slightly mottled cloth, head and tail a little worn, offsetting to endpapers, nice shape overall. Lacking jacket. The first book by the German theoretical physicist who trained many future Nobel laureates, published in the original German in 1919.

Ann. Phys., 3. Folge, 67. - Leipzig, Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1899, 8°, pp.233-290, 5 Fig., orig. Broschur. Seltener Separat-Abdruck! Erste Ausgabe dieser wichtigen und frühen Veröffentlichung Sommerfelds. Sie ist die umfangreichste und bedeutendste Arbeit aus seiner Clausthaler Zeit. Das Verhalten der Wellen spielte besonders bei den Experimenten von Hertz eine große Rolle. This is an important and early paper of Arnold Sommerfeld's. He took his doctoral degree in 1891 with work in methods that were to underlie his most important scientific work in the following decade - the application of the theory of functions of a complex variable to boundary-value problems, especially diffraction phenomena. From 1892 to 1893 he served in the Prussian military, and was Felix Klein's assistant at Gottingen from 1893 to 1896. In 1897 he became professor of mathematics at the Bergakademie in Clausthal. It was here that Sommerfeld applied his extraordinary ingenuity in boundary-value problems to the propagation of electromagnetic waves along wires of finite diameter, obtaining the first rigorous solution, as reported in this paper. Although Sommerfeld never received a Nobel Prize, four of his disciples are Nobel Prize laureates: Peter Debye, Wolfgang Pauli, Linus Pauling, and Werner Heisenberg. cf. DSB, XII, pp. 526-527. Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld (1868-1951) war ein deutscher Mathematiker und theoretischer Physiker.

(Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1918). Without wrappers in "Annalen der Physik", Vierte Folge, Bd. 51, No.17 a. 18. The entire issues offered. Pp. 1-124 a. pp. 125-236. Sommerfeld's papers: pp. 1-94 a. pp. 125-167. Punched in inner margins after cords. Clean and fine. First appearance of Sommerfeld's main contribution to Quantum Theory, incorporating the "Sommerfeld Model" of the atom and his creation of a general theory of spectral lines based on quantum concepts."In the winter Semester 1914/15 his topic was the Bohr model. He extended it considerably and was able to find a number of new results which were published early in 1916 (in the paper offered).The gist of Bohr's theory was the fact that it allowed only certain electron orbits. Sommerfeld tried to find the "quantum conditions" by which these orbits could be singled out from the classically allowed ones."(Siegmund Brandt "The harvest of a Century", Episode 27, p. 110 ff.)."This extraordinary extension, enrichment, and precision of Bohr's theory by Sommerfeld contributed decisively to its rapid and widespread acceptance. Only five years after Bohr's first publicatuion Sommerfeld, recognizing that the mathematical development of thsi quantum-theoretical atomic model had reached a conclusion of sorts, undertook a comprehensive exposition of the field. His "Atombau und Spektrallinien", of which the first edition appeared late in 1919, immediately became the bible of atomic physics and its successive editions, appearing almost annually in the early 1920's, chronicled the progress of this field up to the eve of quantum mechanics."(DSB XII, p. 529).The offered papers contains also 2 importent contribution in the same field by Sommerfeld's pupils: Paul S. Epstein "Zur Quantentheorie" pp. 168-188 and J. Stark: "Der Träger der Haupt- un Nebenserien der Alkalien, alkalischen Erden und des Heliums", pp. 220-236.

Sommerfeld, Arnold (1868-1951). Zur Quantentheorie der Spektrallinien, Ergänzungen und Erweiterungen. Offprint from Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Math.-Phys, Klasse (1916). 131-182pp. 216 x 144 mm. Original printed wrappers, slightly sunned. Very good to fine. Presentation Copy, Inscribed by Sommerfeld to Niels Bohr's brother, Harald Bohr (1887-1951) on the front wrapper: "Hn. H. Bohr mit bestem Gruss v. V." [to Mr. H. Bohr with best regards from the author]. First Edition, Offprint Issue. Sommerfeld was a brilliant theoretical physicist whose work on the application of Bohr's revolutionary 1913 theory of atomic structure to the Zeeman effect and to the fine structure of spectral lines was largely responsible for the rapid and widespread acceptance of Bohr's atomic model. The results of Sommerfeld's investigations of atomic spectra and the Zeeman effect performed during the 1910s and 1920s were accepted almost without change in the post-1925 quantum-mechanical theory of atomic structure. Bohr's model of atomic structure was a product of the "old" quantum theory developed between 1900 and 1925, prior to the advent of quantum mechanics. After the model's publication in 1913 Sommerfeld worked to refine and extend it, coming up with (among other things) the fine-structure constant characterizing the strength of the electromagnetic interaction between elementary charged particles, which he introduced in an important paper published in July 1916 (Annalen der Physik, 4th series, 51: 1-94). However, Sommerfeld still had to contend with the difficulties inherent in the old quantum theory, particularly its inability to calculate the intensities of spectral lines and to explain the anomalous Zeeman effect (splitting of spectral lines in a strong magnetic field). In the present paper, published in November 1916, Sommerfeld replaced Bohr's model of the helium atom with a new model suggested by Paul Ehrenfestin which one of the atom's electrons was tightly bound to the nucleus and the other moved in an orbit with larger dimensionsto obtain the formulae for the spectral series of helium. Sommerfeld presented this copy to Bohr's brother, Harald Bohr, an eminent mathematician who founded the field of almost periodic functions. Harald was well known to Sommerfeld; he had prepared and sent to Sommerfeld a German translation of Niels's March 1916 letter to Sommerfeld praising Sommerfeld's work on the atomic model (see Mehra & Rechenberg 1, p. 232). Mehra & Rechenberg, Historical Development of Quantum Theory 1, p. 461. .

Debye, Peter J. W. (1884-1966) and Arnold Sommerfeld (1868-1951). Theorie des lichtelektrischen Effektes vom Standpunkt des Wirkungsquantums. Offprint from Annalen der Physik, 4th series, 41 (1913). 873-930pp. 222 x 145 mm. Original printed wrappers, a bit chipped, small splits in spine. Very good. From the library of Walther Gerlach (1889-1979), with his characteristic red ink docketing on the front wrapper. First Edition, Offprint Issue. In 1911 Sommerfeld presented his quantum h-hypothesis to explain certain properties of X-radiation, but the hypothesis received criticism at the 1912 Solvay Conference, and Sommerfeld's plan to test the h-hypothesis experimentally was subsequently derailed by von Laue and Knipping's discovery of X-ray diffraction in crystals. "In 1913 Sommerfeld and Debye expanded upon a theory of the photoelectric effect as a last attempt to make the h-hypothesis plausible. They assumed that an atom of metal collects light over a period of time ("accumulation time") until the energy is large enough to emit an electron. Although they were able to derive Einstein's law for the photoelectric effect, the theory amounted to unrealistic conclusions about the accumulation process. Depending on the wavelength of the light with which photoelectrons were emitted, the accumulation time varied widely. X-ray wavelengths amounted to years! Ten years later, when Sommerfeld published the third edition of Atombau und Spektrallinien, he mentioned this absurd result as an example of the futile attempts to marry the quantum theoretical with classical conceptions" (Eckert, Establishing Quantum Physics in Munich: Emergence of Arnold Sommerfeld's Quantum School, pp. 30-31). This copy is from the library of Walther Gerlach, co-discoverer of spin quantization in a magnetic field (the "Stern-Gerlach" effect). .

Sommerfeld, Arnold (1868-1951). Die frei schwingende Kolbenmembran. Offprint from Annalen der Physik, 5th series, 42 (1943). 389-420pp. 230 x 156 mm. Without wrappers as issued. Slightly sunned, but very good. Presentation Copy, inscribed by Sommerfeld to Gregor Wentzel (1898-1978) on the first page: "G. L. G. Wentzel mit frdl. Gruss vom Verf." First Edition, Offprint Issue. Sommerfeld's theory of the freely vibrating piston diaphragm. "The problem had presumably arisen in the context of 'questions of underwater noise,' which Fritz Renner, commissioned by the [German] Navy's Experimental Telecommunications Command (Nachrichtenmittel-Versuchskommando), had worked up before being requisitioned by Sommerfeld as his assistant. In this case, though, it was less the physics associated with the problem that made this an interesting case for Sommerfeld, than the mathematical treatment. In studying more closely the pertinent technical literature on acoustics, he found that a procedure for solving the boundary value problem in question which to him seemed particularly useful appeared to be unknown in that domain" (Eckert, Arnold Sommerfeld: Science, Life and Turbulent Times 1868-1951, p. 413). Sommerfeld presented this copy to theoretical physicist Gregor Wentzel, who made notable contributions to quantum mechanics; Wentzel had served for a time as Sommerfeld's assistant. .

Sommerfeld, Arnold (1868-1951) and G. Schur. Über den Photoeffekt in der K-Schale der Atome, insbesondere über die Voreilung der Photoelektronen. Offprint from Annalen der Physik, 5th series, 4 (1930). 419-449pp. 225 x 145 mm. Without wrappers as issued. Small tears in paper backstrip, light toning but very good. First Edition, Offprint Issue. "In 1929 Arnold Sommerfeld and G. Schur carried out a systematic wave mechanical calculation of the effect of radiation pressure (i.e., of the action of the electric and magnetic fields of the incident radiation) on the intensity distribution of the photoelectrons. In particular, they found that Wentzel's formula . . . which he had obtained by simply considering the momentum of the incident light-quantummust be improved" (Mehra & Rechenberg, Erwin Schrödinger and the Rise of Wave Mechanics, p. 838[n]). Gregor Wentzel had published the formula in his paper "Über die Richtungsverteilung der Photoelektronen" (Zeitschrift für Physik 41 [1927]: 828-832). .

Verh. Ges. Naturf. Ärzte, 83. - Versammlung Karlsruhe 1911. - Leipzig, Verlag F.C.W. Vogel, 1911, IV, 411; XII, 515; 48; XV, 574; 66 PP., mit 113 Abbildungen und 12 Tafeln, Halbleinenband d.Zt.; feines Expl. Erste Ausgabe! Arnold Sommerfeld's (1861-1951) bekannter Vortrag beginnt: "Als der wissenschaftliche Ausschuß unserer Gesellschaft an mich die Aufforderung richtete, dieser Versammlung einen Bericht über die Relativtheorie zu erstatten, erlaubte ich mir dagegen geltend zu machen, daß das Relativitätsporinzip kaum mehr zu den eigentlich aktuellen Fragen der Physik gehöre. Obwohl erst Jahre alt - Einsteins Arbeit erschien 1905 - scheint es schon in den gesicherten Besitz der Physik übergegangen zu sein. Ganz anders aktuell und problematisch ist die Theorie der Energiequanten oder, wie ich lieber sage, die Theorie des Wirkungsquantums. Hier sind die Grundbegriffe noch im Fluß und die Probleme ungezählt." Er endet: "Zweifellos befinden sich unsere theoretischen Anschauungen über Energieverteilung, Energieeemission und -absorption zurzeit in einem etwas dunkeln Übergangsstadium.". "Ohne ins Detail zu gehen, muß man aber feststellen, daß die Plancksche Quantenhypothese imersten Dezennium ihrer Existenz von den meisten Physikern kaum zur Kenntnis genommen wurde. Mit seinem Referat "Das Plancksche Wirkungsquantum und seine allgemeine Bedeutung für die Molekularphysik" auf der Naturforscherversammlung 1911 in Karlsruhe sowie kurz darauf dem tiefergehenden Referat "Die Bedeutung des Wirkungsquantums für unperiodische Molekularprozesse in der Physik" auf dem .Solvay-Kongreß in Brüssel im Jahre 1911 brachte Sommerfeld einen wesentlichen Anstoß für eine weiterführende Debatte um das Plancksche Quantenkonzept. Er betont darin: "Nichts könnte der modernen Physik förderlicher sein, als eine Klärung der Ansichten über diese Fragen. Hier liegt (.) der Schlüssel nicht nur zur Strahlungstheorie, sondern auch zur molekularen Konstitution der Materie, und zwar liegt er zur Zeit noch recht tief versteckt." Nach Sommerfelds Auffassung sollte man also in der Lage sein, mit Hilfe des Planckschen Wirkungsquantums die Rätsel um den Atom- und Molekülbau zu lösen. Bisher hatte man eher umgekehrt versucht, das Wirkungsquantum aus den Atomeigenschaften zu erklären; nach Sommerfelds Worten sollte man nun versuchen, "(.) das h nicht aus den Moleküldimensionen zu erklären, sondern die Existenz der Moleküle als eine Funktion und Folge der Existenz eines elementaren Wirkungsquantums anzusehen"." Arnold Sommerfeld - Kommunikation und Schulenbildung.

Ann. Phys., 4. Folge, 32+33. - Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1910, 8°, pp. 749-776, 2 Fig.; pp.649-689, 8 Fig., 2 orig. Broschuren; mit Aufdruck "Überreicht vom Verfasser". 2 Rare Offprints! First edition of the two-part work in which Sommerfeld attempts to circumvent the matrix calculus and extend the vector operations familiar from electrodynamics to four dimensions in such a way that the resulting electrodynamics contains the conventional one for three-dimensional space. In the present work he deals with the algebraic relationships of space-time vectors. "In July, 1905, Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) proposed two laws of gravitational attraction compatible with the principle of relativity and all astronomical observations explained by Newton's law. Two years later, in the fall of 1907, Albert Einstein (1879-1955) began to investigate the consequences of the principle of equivalence for the behavior of light rays in a gravitational field. The following year, Hermann Minkowski (1864-1909), Einstein's former mathematics instructor, borrowed Poincaré's notion of a four-dimensional vector space for his new matrix calculus, in which he expressed a novel theory of the electrodynamics of moving media, a spacetime mechanics, and two laws of gravitational attraction. Following another two-year hiatus, Arnold Sommerfeld (1868-1951) characterized the relationship between the laws proposed by Poincaré and Minkowski, calling for this purpose both on spacetime diagrams and a new 4-vector formalism." The Genesis of General Relativity. Scott Walter, Breaking in the 4-Vectors: The Four-Dimensional Movement in Gravitation, 1905-1910; BSPS,volume 250 Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld (1868-1951) pioneered developments in atomic and quantum physics, and also educated and mentored many students for the new era of theoretical physics. He served as doctoral supervisor and postdoc supervisor to seven Nobel Prize winners and supervised at least 30 other famous physicists and chemists. He introduced the second quantum number, azimuthal quantum number, and the third quantum number, magnetic quantum number[citation needed]. He also introduced the fine-structure constant and pioneered X-ray wave theory.