1853 - Lorentz - bio
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was born in 1853 in Arnhem, The Netherlands. He was a physicist who collaborated with Pieter Zeeman to describe the Zeeman effect, for which both men were awarded the nobel prize for physics in 1902. The Zeeman effect describes how a magnetic field causes light to be split across spectral lines. The Fitzgerald-Lorentz contraction describes a decrease in lengths of objects traveling at a high rate of speed. This hypothesis became a key element of Einstein’s theory of special relativity. Lorentz, Poincare and Einstein all worked on the foundations of relativity.
PRECURSOR:
Faraday
Maxwell
CONCURRENT:
Zeeman
Fitzgerald
Poincare
Einstein
SUBSEQUENT:
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