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Text__I1-tMKOdEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_text=Arnold Sommerfeld (1868-1951) is considered one of the founders of modern theoretical  physics and trains generations of important physicists. He studies in K\u00F6nigsberg, where he  gains his doctorate in mathematics in 1891. He is influenced above all by his subsequent  time as assistant to Felix Klein in G\u00F6ttingen. In 1900 he is appointed professor of technical  mechanics at the Technical University of Aachen, and full professor of theoretical physics  at the University of Munich in 1906. He starts incorporating Einstein\u2019s special theory of  relativity into his lectures as early as 1907, and writes important articles on refining its  mathematical formalism. He is among the early supporters of the quantum hypothesis and  further develops the Bohr model of the atom. Sommerfeld\u2019s fundamental works include his 1919 treatise Atomic Structure and Spectral  Lines, that is regarded as the \u201Cbible\u201D of atomic physicists at that time. 
Text__I1-tMKOdEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_title=Arnold Sommerfeld (1868\u20131951)