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Portrait of Hendrik Antoon Lorentz

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Portrait of Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853-1902) wearing a suit and a bow tie.

Lorentz was a Dutch physicist. In 1902, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman (1865-1943) for their discovery of the Zeeman effect. The Zeeman effect occurs when a spectral line is split into several components in the presence of a static magnetic field. In 1908, Lorentz became a full professor in the physics department of the Physics Institute in Amersterdam.

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  • Courtesy of Science History Institute
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  • Series I: Sub-Series I: Georg Bredig Correspondence File, 1891-1944
  • Series I: Sub-Series II. Georg Bredig Subject File, 1900-1944
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  • Box 4, Folder 41

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“Portrait of Hendrik Antoon Lorentz,” n.d. Papers of Georg and Max Bredig, Box 4, Folder 41. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/k6j5jlt.

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