Ueber die Fortpflanzung elektrodynamischer Wellen langs eines Drahtes.

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222 x 151 mm. 8vo. Pages (232)-290. [Entire volume: viii, 900 pp.] 5 figs. Quarter cloth, marbled boards, gilt spine; extremities lightly rubbed. Blind stamp of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Solar Observatory. Fine. 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. The greatest honors Sommerfeld received in his life-time were the chairs of theoretical physics at the University of Vienna (1917) and at the University of Berlin in succession to Max Planck (1927). DSB, XII, pp. 526-527. N° de ref. del artículo S3280

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