Hendrik Lorentz
Physicist, Academic
1853 – 1928
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Who was Hendrik Lorentz?
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect. He also derived the transformation equations subsequently used by Albert Einstein to describe space and time.
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- Born
- Jul 18, 1853
Arnhem - Also known as
- Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
- H. A. Lorentz
- Children
- Nationality
- Netherlands
- Profession
- Education
- Leiden University
- Employment
- Leiden University
- Lived in
- Netherlands
- Arnhem
- Died
- Feb 4, 1928
Haarlem
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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