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A Look at Sommerfeld's Fine Structure Spectrum Formula

Authors: Jorma Jormakka

The article gives the derivation of Sommerfeld's fine structure spectrum formulaand my comments on it. I think Sommerfeld's approach has been too easily discarded. (For those interested in whether a semiclassical model can explain the whole spectrum of hydrogen, I will look at the spin, the Zeeman effect and the Lamb shift in a separate paper. I cannot yet say what the result is. One can model them, yes, but does the model make sense, this I cannot yet say.)

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