biography
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| (1865–1943)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Zonnemaire, The Netherlands. He studied at Leyden under Lorentz, became a lecturer there (1890), and was appointed professor at Amsterdam (1900), and director of the Physical Institute (1908). While at Leyden he discovered the Zeeman effect - when light from a source placed in a magnetic field is examined spectroscopically, a spectral line splits into several components. This discovery suppported the idea of electron spin, and has helped physicists investigate atoms, and astronomers to measure the magnetic field of stars. In 1902 he shared with Lorentz the Nobel Prize for Physics. |
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