Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon

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Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon (1853–1928) Dutch physicist and professor at Leiden. His early work concentrated on the theory of electromagnetic radiation devised by James Clerk Maxwell. This led him to the Lorentz transformation and the prediction of the Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction, both of which helped Einstein to develop his special theory of relativity. Lorentz also worked on the Zeeman effect, for which he and Pieter Zeeman gained the 1902 Nobel Prize in physics.

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