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1868–1951 Germany

Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld (5 December 1868 – 26 April 1951) was a German physicist who introduced the fine-structure constant in 1919.

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If I knew something about it, I wouldn’t lecture on it!

Zuko saysThermodynamics is a funny subject. The first time you go through it, you don't understand it at all. The second time you go through it, you think you understand it, except for one or two small points. The third time you go through it, you know you don't understand it, but by that time you are so used to it, so it doesn't bother you any more.

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