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Sommerfeld

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[zawm-uhr-felt] / ˈzɔm ərˌfɛlt /

noun

  1. Arnold (Johannes Wilhelm) 1868–1951, German physicist.


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On Saturday, Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Gabriela Sommerfeld defended the operation to arrest former Vice President Jorge Glas, a convicted criminal and fugitive who had been living at the embassy in Quito, the capital, since December.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2024

Dr Laura Sommerfeld, Postdoctoral Researcher at the UKE Hamburg, who completed her PhD at the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences at the University of Birmingham focusing on this work is lead author of the study.

From Science Daily • Feb. 13, 2024

Sommerfeld is a generation younger and objects to his “pathological obsession with the Holocaust”.

From The Guardian • May 11, 2018

Mat Sommerfeld toppled Boogaard the first time they fought in the Western Hockey League.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2011

Karl should be there, too, but he has found a New Year's party and sent a Mormon friend, Arthur Sommerfeld, as his replacement.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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