Recipient of the 1948 Oersted Medal for Notable Contributions to the Teaching of Physics

The American Association of Physics Teachers has made to Professor Arnold Sommerfeld, long time Professor of Physics at the University of Munich, the thirteenth of its annual awards for notable contributions to the teaching of physics. The addresses of recommendation and presentation were made by Professor Paul Kirkpatrick, Chairman of the Committee on Awards, and Professor J. W. Buchta, President of the Association, in a ceremony held in McMillan Hall, Columbia University, on January 28, 1949, during the eighteenth annual meeting.