Hendrik Antoon Lorentz

1853 - 1928

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Lorentz is best known for his work on electromagnetic radiation and the FitzGerald-Lorentz contraction. He developed the mathematical theory of the electron.
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List of References (7 books/articles)

Mathematicians born in the same country

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Additional Material in MacTutor

  1. Obituary: The Times

Honours awarded to Hendrik Lorentz
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LMS Honorary Member1898
Nobel Prize1902
Fellow of the Royal Society1905
Speaker at International Congress1908
Royal Society Copley Medal1918
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh1920
Lunar featuresCrater Lorentz

Other Web sites
  1. Encyclopaedia Britannica
  1. Nobel prizes site (A biography of Lorentz and his Nobel prize presentation speech)
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