Published “Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger<sup>*</sup>” in The Astrophysical Journal Letters — cited 3,678 times.
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Hendrik Lorentz
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was a Dutch theoretical physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for their discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect. He derived the Lorentz transformation of the special theory of relativity, as well as the Lorentz force, which describes the force acting on a charged particle in an electromagnetic field. He was also responsibl…
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science · Dutch physicist (1853–1928) · theoretical physicist · physicist · mathematician · botanist · university teacher · curator · also Hendrik Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, H.Lorentz, H.A. Lorentz, H. A. Lorentz, Lorentz
Born 18 July 1853 · Died 4 February 1928 · Q41688
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1932· 1 entry
And the predictions of Lorentz and his committee turned out to be remarkably accurate
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1928· 2 entries
Died 1928-02-04.
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“Let there be in every material particle several material points charged with electricity, of which, however, only one be movable, and have the charge e and the mass μ.”
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1925· 1 entry
Won Echegaray Medal (1925).
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1924· 1 entry
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1924).
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1918· 1 entry
Won Copley Medal (1918).
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1917· 1 entry
Won Franklin Medal (1917).
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1912· 1 entry
Lorentz resigned from his chair at Leiden University to become Curator of the Physical Cabinet at Teylers Museum in Haarlem
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1911· 1 entry
Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1911).
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1910· 2 entries
Lorentz decided to reorganize his career; his teaching and management duties at Leiden University were taking up too much of his time, leaving him little time for research
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Lorentz's 1906 lectures at Columbia University, were published under the title The Theory of Electrons
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1908· 2 entries
Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (1908).
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Won Rumford Medal (1908).
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1905· 2 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1905).
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Einstein would use many of the concepts, mathematical tools and results Lorentz discussed to write his paper titled Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper (On the electrodynamics of moving bodies), known today as the special
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1902· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — in recognition of the extraordinary service they rendered by their researches into the influence of magnetism upon radiation phenomena.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1902).
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1900· 1 entry
And 1904, Henri Poincaré called local time Lorentz's "most ingenious idea" and illustrated it by showing that clocks in moving frames are synchronized by exchanging light signals that are assumed to travel at the same sp
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1899· 2 entries
And again in 1904, Lorentz added time dilation to his transformations and published what Poincaré in 1905 named Lorentz transformations
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Career landmark: rector magnificus of Leiden University (1899–1900).
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1896· 1 entry
And Lorentz supplied its theoretical interpretation
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1892· 2 entries
With the attempt to explain the Michelson–Morley experiment, he also proposed that moving bodies contract in the direction of motion
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And 1895, Lorentz worked on describing electromagnetic phenomena (the propagation of light) in reference frames that move relative to the postulated luminiferous aether
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1881· 1 entry
Lorentz married Aletta Catharina Kaiser, with whom he had two daughters and one son
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1878· 1 entry
Lorentz was appointed to the newly established Chair of Theoretical Physics at Leiden University; the position had initially been offered to Johannes van der Waals, but he had just accepted a professorship at the Univers
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1875· 1 entry
Studied at Leiden University, Doctor (1870–1875).
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1872· 1 entry
Returned to Arnhem to become a night school teacher, while also continuing his studies at Leiden
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1870· 2 entries
Lorentz entered Leiden University, where he was strongly influenced by the teaching of astronomy professor Frederik Kaiser; it was his influence that led Lorentz to become a physicist
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Passed the exams in classical languages, which were then required for admission to university
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1862· 1 entry
After his mother's death, his father married Luberta Hupkes
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1853· 1 entry
Born 1853-07-18.
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