![]() Zeeman had verified experimentally Lorentz's theoretical work on atomic structure, demonstrating the effect of a strong magnetic field on the oscillations by measuring the change in the wavelength of the light produced. The Nobel prize was awarded jointly to Lorentz and Pieter Zeeman, a student of Lorentz. Lorentz developed his mathematical theory of the electron for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1902. However, he retained an honorary position at Leiden, where he continued to lecture.īefore the existence of electrons was proved, Lorentz proposed that light waves were due to oscillations of an electric charge in the atom. After retiring from this chair, Lorentz was appointed director of research at the Teyler Institute, Haarlem. He remained in this post until he retired in 1912 when Ehrenfest was appointed to his chair. He was appointed professor of mathematical physics at Leiden University in 1878. Lorentz refined Maxwell's electromagnetic theory in his doctoral thesis The theory of the reflection and refraction of light presented in 1875. He worked for his doctorate while holding the teaching post. ![]() He entered the University of Leiden in 1870 but, in 1872, he returned to Arnhem to take up teaching evening classes. ![]() ![]() Biography Hendrik Lorentz attended Mr Timmer's Primary School in Arnhem until he was 13 years of age when he entered the new High School there. ![]()
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