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showHide_TellMeAbout2('false'); Business Entertainment Games Health ... More... On this page: Dictionary Encyclopedia WordNet Wikipedia Mentioned In Or search: - The Web - Images - News - Blogs - Shopping Hendrik Lorentz Dictionary Lo·rentz l´r ənts, lōr -, lō rĕnts Hendrik Dutch physicist. He shared a 1902 Nobel Prize for researching the influence of magnetism on radiation. Encyclopedia Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon hĕn drək ¤n tōn lō rĕnts ) , 1853–1928, Dutch physicist, a pioneer in formulating the relations between electricity, magnetism, and light. He was one of the first to postulate the existence of electrons. On this he based his explanation of the Zeeman effect (a change in spectrum lines in a magnetic field), for which he shared with Pieter Zeeman the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics. He extended the hypothesis of G. F. Fitzgerald, an Irish physicist, that the length of a body contracts as its speed increases (see Lorentz contraction ), and he formulated the Lorentz transformation, by which space and time coordinates of one moving system can be correlated with the known space and time coordinates of any other system. This work influenced, and was confirmed by, Einstein's special theory of relativity. Lorentz also discovered (1880), simultaneously with L. V. Lorenz of the Univ. of Copenhagen, the relations (known as Lorentz-Lorenz relations) between the refraction of light and the density of a translucent body. He was professor (1878–1912) at the Univ. of Leiden and director from 1912 of the Teyler laboratory, Haarlem. His works in English include

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Hendrik Antoon Lorentz Nacido el 18 de julio de 1853, en Arnhem, Holanda, Fallecido el 4 de febrero de 1928, en Haarlem, Holanda. Hendrik Antoon Lorentz.- físico matemático holandés, y último gran representante de la física clásica y precursor de la nueva, reunía a la lúcida lógica del matemático virtuoso la aguda intuición que le permitía ver escondidas realidades en los símbolos de las teorías. Profundidad y claridad a la vez distinguen las ideas de este eminente innovador. Profesor a los veinticinco años de la Universidad de Leyden, en Holanda, se convirtió, durante los dos primeros decenios del siglo, en inspirador-guía de toda una generación de investigadores. Nació en Arnhem, Holanda (Países Bajos), el 18 de julio de 1853. Hijo de Gerrit Frederik Lorentz propietario de una guardería infantil y su esposa Geertruida van Ginkef. Cuando él contaba con cuatro años de edad, su madre murió, y en 1862 su padre se volvió a casar con Luberta Hupkes. En aquellos años, la enseñanza que se impartía a los niños y jóvenes era bastante rigurosa y sacrificada, ya que los horarios de clases muchas veces se extendían hasta el anochecer (se aplicaba en algún sentido el método de Dalton) y, fue bajo ese régimen de estudios, que Hendrik Antoon Lorentz adquirió los conocimientos de la enseñanza básica. Por ello, cuando en 1866 se inauguró el primer establecimiento de enseñanza media (H.B.S) en Arnhem, Lorentz, como alumno talentoso que era, ingresó a ese establecimiento de inmediato al tercer año. Al finalizar su quinto año de estudios medios y de haber recibido durante un año formación sobre los clásicos, se incorporó a la Universidad de Leyden en 1870, donde obtuvo su licenciatura en matemáticas y física, recibiendo el correspondiente título en el año 1871.

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Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon Dutch physicist, winner (with his pupil Pieter Zeeman) of a Nobel prize in 1902 for his work on the Zeeman effect, in which a magnetic field splits spectral lines. Lorentz spent most of his career trying to develop and improve Scottish scientist James Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic theory. He also attempted to account for the anomalies of the Michelson-Morley experiment by proposing (independently of Irish physicist George Fitzgerald) that moving bodies contracted in their direction of motion. He took the matter further with his method of transforming space and time coordinates, later known as Lorentz transformations, which prepared the way for Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. Lorentz was born in Arnhem and studied at Leiden, where he became professor of theoretical physics at the age of 24. In 1912 he became director of the Teyler Institute in Haarlem.

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Pieter Zeeman and Hendrik Antoon Lorentz Used with permission of Maiken Naylor, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA, http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/sel/exhibits/stamps Pieter Zeeman (1865-1943) and Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853-1928) shared the 1902 Nobel prize in physics for the investigation and explanation of the Zeeman effect: when a spectral source is placed in a magnetic field, the emission lines are found to be first broadened and then split into components as the magnetic field strength increases, and the emitted light is polarized. Lorentz' theoretical work on the electromagnetic theory of light assumed that charged particles called electrons carry currents or transport electric charge, and their vibrations are the cause of electromagnetic waves. The effect of a magnetic field on the light emitted and spectroscopically analyzed conformed to Lorentz' theory, confirming the electromagnetic wave nature of light.

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Hendrik Lorentz [Categories: Dutch scientists, Nobel Prize in Physics winners, Dutch physicists, 1928 deaths, 1853 births] Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (July 18, 1853, (A city in the central Netherlands on the lower Rhine River; site of a battle in 1944 during World War II) Arnhem (Click link for more info and facts about Haarlem) Haarlem ) was a (The West Germanic language of the Netherlands) Dutch (A scientist trained in physics) physicist and the winner of the 1902 (Click link for more info and facts about Nobel Prize in Physics) Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on (Radiation consisting of waves of energy associated with electric and magnetic fields resulting from the acceleration of an electric charge) electromagnetic radiation Lorentz attended primary school in Arnhem until he was 13 years of age when he entered the new High School there. He entered the (Click link for more info and facts about University of Leiden) University of Leiden in 1870 but, in 1872, he returned to Arnhem to take up teaching evening classes. He worked for his doctorate while holding the teaching post. In his doctoral thesis for (Click link for more info and facts about University of Leiden) University of Leiden (1875), Lorentz refined the electromagnetic theory of

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home resource directory disorders quizzes ... support forums Advertisement ( Hendrik Lorentz (Redirected from Hendrik Antoon Lorentz Missing image Hendrik_lorentz.jpg Painting of Hendrik Lorentz by Arnhemensis Hendrik Antoon Lorentz July 18 Arnhem February 4 Haarlem ) was a Dutch physicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on electromagnetic radiation Lorentz attended primary school in Arnhem until he was 13 years of age when he entered the new High School there. He entered the University of Leiden in 1870 but, in 1872, he returned to Arnhem to take up teaching evening classes. He worked for his doctorate while holding the teaching post. In his doctoral thesis for University of Leiden (1875), Lorentz refined the electromagnetic theory of James Clerk Maxwell to better explain the reflection and refraction of light. His name is now associated with the Lorentz-Lorenz formula. He was appointed professor of mathematical physics at the Univiersity of Leiden in 1878. During his time there he was primarily interested in a single theory to explain the relationship of electricity, magnetism, and light. Lorentz theorized that the atoms might consist of charged particles and suggested that the oscillations of these charged particles were the source of light. This was experimentally proven in 1896 by

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Search BookRags.com English History Other Subjects Essays Biographies Research Topics eBooks Register Login Help Literature Study Guides ... Games Welcome, Guest Why not Login or Register Biography Navigation Hendrik Antoon Lorentz Index Main Biography World of Mathematics Biography World of Physics Biography History of Scientific Discovery Biography 1900 To 1949: Physical Sciences Biography How to Cite Order the PDF Home Biography Hendrik Antoon Lorentz Main Biography Complete Biographical Resource See related items by keyword: university theory physicists theoretical physics ... dutch university Name: Hendrik Antoon Lorentz Birth Date: July 18, 1853 Death Date: February 4, 1928 Place of Birth: Aarnhem, Netherlands Place of Death: Haarlem, Netherlands Nationality: Dutch Gender: Male Occupations: physicist Hendrik Antoon Lorentz Main Biography 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, the son of Gerrit Frederik Lorentz and his wife, Geertruida van Ginkel, was born on July 18, 1853, in Aarnhem. At the age of 9 he mastered the use of a table of logarithms. In high school he excelled in the sciences, as well as in history and languages. In 1870 he passed the examinations to qualify for the University of Leiden. By the end of the next year he had become a doctoral candidate. During the next 2 years Lorentz taught high school physics and mathematics in Aarnhem. In June 1873 he returned to Leiden and received his doctoral degree; his dissertation revealed at one stroke his extraordinary grasp of what constituted at that time the most advanced and most portentous part of theoretical physics, J. C. Maxwell's electromagnetic theory. Lorentz was not only among the relativel.....

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Spacetime Lorentz Transformation Lorentz Transformation This transformation derives its name, of course, from Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853-1928), a Dutch physicist. Unlike the Galilean transformation, the Lorentz transformation involves a change of spatial distance and a change of time interval between two inertial systems. For a simple case where the new coordinate system is moving with constant velocity v along the x-axis of the old coordinate system , the transformation is as in the figure, where y' = y and z' = z. In general, the Lorentz transformation allows a change of the origin of a coordinate system, a rotation around the origin, a reversal of spatial or temporal direction, and a uniform movement along a spatial axis. If a physical law remains the same under the Lorentz transformation, it is called "Lorentz invariant". This is what Einstein aimed at, as regards both mechanics and electro-magnetism, in his special relativity (but only inertial systems were in view). Lorentz moving up!

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