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Hendrik Antoon Lorentz.
Title: Hendrik Antoon Lorentz.
Category: History / World History
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Hendrik Antoon Lorentz.
Title: Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon (1853-1928)
Date: 01-01-1998
Publication: The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
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Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon (1853-1928)
was a Dutch physicist who helped to develop the theory of electromagnetism, which was recognized by the award (jointly with his pupil Pieter Zeeman) of the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Lorentz was born in Arnhem, Holland, on 18 July 1853. He was educated at local schools and at the University of Leyden, which he left at …showed first 75 words of 2227 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2227 total…with the unequal rate of propagation of the beams of light in different substances. How does it come about, however, that the speed of light in solid, liquid, and gaseous substances differs from its speed in the ether of empty space, so that it has its own value for each of these ponderable substances; and how can it be explained that these values, and hence also the refractive index, vary from one colour to another.
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