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- ↑ Sommerfeld Archived 2008-06-12 at the Wayback Machine – Personal Data
- ↑ Sommerfeld Project [ permanent dead link ] – Doctorate for Johannes Fischer
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Johannes Fischer (born 1887) was a German physicist.
Fischer studied under Arnold Sommerfeld at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. His thesis was on the theory of diffraction, and he was awarded his doctorate in 1922. [1] [2]
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