Won Matteucci Medal (1969).
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Pieter Zeeman
Pieter Zeeman was a Dutch experimental physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for their discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.
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Born 25 May 1865 · Died 9 October 1943 · Q79000
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1969· 1 entry
1943· 1 entry
Died 1943-10-09.
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1934· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg (1934).
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1930· 1 entry
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1930).
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1925· 1 entry
Won Franklin Medal (1925).
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1923· 1 entry
Was renamed the Zeeman Laboratory in 1940
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1922· 1 entry
Won Rumford Medal (1922).
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1921· 2 entries
Won Henry Draper Medal (1921).
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1921).
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1918· 1 entry
Zeeman published "Some experiments on gravitation: The ratio of mass to weight for crystals and radioactive substances" in the Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, experimentally confirm
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1908· 1 entry
Succeeded Johannes van der Waals as full professor and Director of the Physics Institute
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1902· 3 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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Zeeman and Lorentz were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their respective experimental and theoretical work on the Zeeman effect
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1896· 1 entry
Shortly before moving from Leiden to Amsterdam, Zeeman measured the splitting of spectral lines by a strong magnetic field, a discovery now known as the Zeeman effect
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1895· 2 entries
Zeeman married Johanna Elisabeth Lebret (1873–1962), with whom he had three daughters and one son
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Returned to Leiden to become a Privatdozent in mathematics and physics
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1893· 1 entry
Submitted his doctoral thesis on the Kerr effect, the reflection of polarized light on a magnetized surface
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1890· 1 entry
Became Lorentz's assistant, which allowed him to participate in a research programme on the Kerr effect
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1885· 1 entry
Zeeman entered Leiden University to study physics under Kamerlingh Onnes and Hendrik Lorentz
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1883· 2 entries
The aurora borealis happened to be visible in the Netherlands; Zeeman, then a student at the high school in Zierikzee, made a drawing and description of the phenomenon and submitted it to Nature, where it was published
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Zeeman went to Delft for supplementary education in classical languages, then a requirement for admission to university
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1865· 1 entry
Born 1865-05-25.
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