The alternate-world counterpart of Suo Mofei, the cultivator who died unexpectedly mentioned in Chapter 27 of the work, was the great scientist Sommerfeld—a heavyweight figure in the history of physics.
Sommerfeld received dozens of Nobel Prize nominations in his lifetime [unfortunately, he never won]. But this is not about Sommerfeld's academic achievements; it is about how damn impressive he was as a teacher.
People generally regarded Pauli and Heisenberg as Bohr's students. But our Mr. Bohr was a dull, introverted fellow, and when it came to wording things, he was simply a disaster. On this point, he probably had plenty in common with Mr. Dirac, who answered a student asking, "Sir, I don't really understand this formula," with, "That was a statement, not a question."
PS: Back when I was reading Throne of Magical Arcana, I wanted to laugh the moment Grand Arcanist Hathaway appeared. Granny's prototype was probably Bohr! 23333
Could someone with that kind of temperament teach students well?
In fact, the bromance duo Heisenberg and Pauli should have been Sommerfeld's students. People counted them under Bohr's school only because they both belonged to the Copenhagen School, and Bohr was merely the leader of the Copenhagen School.
As a teacher, Bohr definitely could not be called outstanding. After establishing his institute, he simply stopped handling teaching affairs altogether. But in this regard, his old acquaintance Sommerfeld was immensely formidable. Either Pauli or Heisenberg alone would have been enough to make any teacher proud for a lifetime. Yet besides those two, Sommerfeld had four more students who won the Dynamite King Prize.
Six Dynamite King Prize winners under his tutelage! Among them were Pauli and Heisenberg, the two who rewrote all of physics!
With results like that, only Rutherford, who taught thirteen Dynamite King Prize winners including Bohr and had himself once been crowned Dynamite King, could surpass him!
In addition, Sommerfeld had some less famous but equally respectable scientists among his disciples. For example, Deng Jiaxian's brother-in-law, the renowned Chinese scientist Zheng Huachi. [If this were a wuxia novel, he would at least count as a registered disciple.]