biography
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Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon
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pronunciation:
[lohrents]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1853–1928)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Arnhem, The Netherlands. He studied at Leyden and became professor of mathematical physics there (1878), and from 1923 directed research at the Taylor Institute, Haarlem. He clarified the electromagnetic theory of James Clerk Maxwell, and introduced the concept of local time while working on the Michelson–Morley experiment. In 1902 he and Pieter Zeeman were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on electromagnetic radiation. Their efforts presaged Einstein's theory of special relativity. |
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