Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
1853-1928
Dutch theoretical physicist best known for codeveloping the Lorentz-Fitzgerald transformations. Derived in 1892 from his theory of electrons, these equations allowed L...
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The work of the physicist Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853-1928) on electromagnetic theory led to notions equivalent to some basic postulates of the special theory of relativity.Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, th...
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The work of Hendrik Antoon Lorentz went far in explaining and elaborating on the electromagnetic theory first proposed by James Clerk Maxwell. Not only did Lorentz explain the Zeeman effect and name t...
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Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was widely regarded as the world's leading theoretical physicist at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. His earliest work dealt with optical ph...
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Lorentz was born in Arnhem, Holland, on July 18, 1853. At the age of seventeen, he entered the University of Leyden and earned his bachelor's degree a year later. He then returned home and studied on ...
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Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz