Hendrik Lorentz Scientist

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (18 July 1853 – 4 February 1928) 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.

Personal facts

Hendrik Lorentz
Birth dateJuly 18, 1853
Birth place
Netherlands , Arnhem
Nationality
Netherlands
Date of deathFebruary 04, 1928
Place of death
Netherlands , Haarlem
Education
Leiden University
Known for
Electromagnetic radiation
Lorentz force
Lorentz transformation
Length contraction

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Scientist

doctoral advisor
Pieter Rijke
doctoral student
Geertruida de Haas-Lorentz
Hendrika Johanna van Leeuwen
Field of study
Physics

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Hendrik Lorentz on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Considerations_on_Gravitation
  2. http://ilorentz.org/history/zuiderzee/zuiderzee.html
  3. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1902/lorentz-bio.html
  4. http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lorentz.html
  5. http://www.dwc.knaw.nl/toegangen/digital-library-knaw/?pagetype=publist&search_author=PE00001670
  6. http://www.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl/IL-publications/Lorentz.html
  7. http://www.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl/IL-publications/dissertations/lorentz.txt
  8. http://www.physicsinsights.org/poincare-1900.pdf
  9. http://www.vpro.nl/programma/zomergasten/afleveringen/22708246/items/23535592
  10. https://archive.org/details/lecturesontheore031600mbp