![]() ![]() ![]() He left Leiden at the age of 19 to return to Arnhem as a night school teacher, while writing his Ph.D. Hendrik was educated at local schools and entered the University of Leiden in 1870 in less than two years he had earned the B.Sc. His childhood was marked by the death of his mother when he was four and his businessman father’s remarriage five years later. Lorentz was born in Arnhem, the Netherlands, on July 18, 1853. These equations, which later became known as the Lorentz transformation, played a major role in albert einstein’s development of the theory of special relativity. Of equal importance, Lorentz developed a set of equations that mathematically predicted the increase of mass, shortening of length, and dilation of time for a physical object in motion with velocities ranging from zero to the speed of light. In 1896, his student pieter zee-man experimentally confirmed Lorentz’s theory, and they shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1902. Specifically, it would result in a splitting of spectral lines by causing the wavelengths of the lines to vary. Hendrik Lorentz extended james clerk maxwell’s theory of electromagnetism by proposing that since light is generated by oscillating electric currents, the presence of a strong magnetic field would have an effect on the charged particles that make up the oscillating currents. ![]() (1853-1928) Dutch Theoretical Physicist (Classical Electromagnetism, Optics), Relativist ![]()
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