Hendrik Lorentz - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1902
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Hendrik Lorentz

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1902
in recognition of the extraordinary service they rendered by their researches into the influence of magnetism upon radiation phenomena
Together with: Pieter Zeeman
Citizenship
Kingdom of the Netherlands Kingdom of the Netherlands
Languages
Dutch
date of birth
7/18/1853
place of birth
Arnhem
date of death
2/4/1928
place of death
Haarlem
Lived
74 years

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educated at
  • Leiden University
    • academic degree: Doctor
    • end time: 1875
    • start time: 1870
position held
  • rector magnificus of Leiden University
    • end time: 1900
    • start time: 1899
employer
  • Leiden University
    • start time: 11/17/1877
    • end time: 9/25/1912
  • Teylers Museum
    • end time: 1928
    • start time: 1912
  • Leiden University
    • end time: 9/17/1923
    • start time: 9/25/1912
member of
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 5/11/1905
  • Academy of Sciences of Turin
    • start time: 6/14/1903
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1906
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1906
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 7/21/1902
  • French Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
  • Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
  • Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
  • Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
  • Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Romanian Academy
doctoral student
  • Leonard Ornstein
  • Geertruida de Haas-Lorentz
  • Adriaan Daniel Fokker
  • Hendrika Johanna van Leeuwen
  • Johannes Droste
  • Johan Adriaan Vollgraff
  • Pieter Gerlof Tiddens
  • J. E. Couvée
  • Johannes van Slingelandt
  • Willem van Loghem
  • H. A. B. Bockwinkel
  • Daniël Raymond Thierry
  • M. J. H. Houba
  • Edward August Otto Was
  • Eva Dina Bruins
  • Evert Jan Evers
  • H. C. Los
  • W. van den Berg
  • H. van der Kamp
  • J. Reudler
  • D. P. A. Verrijp
  • Pieter Coenraad Frederik Frowein
  • Abraham Cornelis van Rijn van Alkemade
  • Hendrik Bremekamp
  • August Winter
occupation
  • mathematician
  • physicist
  • curator
  • university teacher
  • botanist
  • theoretical physicist
field of work
  • theoretical physics
work location
  • Leiden
notable work
  • Tauc–Lorentz model
  • Lorentz covariance
  • Lorentz–Heaviside units
  • Lorentz group
  • Lorentz force
  • Lorentz ether theory
  • Lorentz oscillator
  • Lorentz transformation
  • Abraham–Lorentz force
  • Lorentz factor
  • length contraction
  • Lorentz–Lorenz equation
  • Lorentz-Drude model
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