Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon

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Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon, LOHR ehnts, HEHN drihk AHN tohn (1853-1928), was a Dutch physicist. He became famous for his electron theory of matter, and shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in physics with Dutch physicist Pieter Zeeman for explaining the effects of magnetism on light. See Zeeman effect.

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