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Charles M. SommerfieldCharles M. Sommerfield was a theoretical physicist and professor emeritus at Yale University. He is the namesake of the Bogomol'nyi–Prasad–Sommerfield bound.
BiographySommerfield studied for his bachelor's at Brooklyn College[1] and earned his Ph.D. from Julian Schwinger at Harvard University in 1957.[2] He worked at Berkeley and Harvard for two years each[3] before becoming professor at Yale in 1961. He was a fellow of Trumbull College.[4] Additionally, he has held visiting positions at the Institute for Advanced Study[5] and the University of Florida.[6] He is notable for his work on high-energy physics. He is one of the namesakes of the Bogomol'nyi–Prasad–Sommerfield bound, along with his graduate student M.K. Prasad.[7] Another notable graduate student he supervised was Howard Georgi.[8] Sommerfield was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1968.[9] See alsoReferences
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