Mathematician:Hendrik Antoon Lorentz

Mathematician

Dutch physicist who shared the $1902$ Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.

Also derived the transformation equations underpinning Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity.

Nationality

Dutch

History

• Born: 18 July 1853 in Arnhem, Netherlands
• Died: 4 February 1928 in Haarlem, Netherlands

Theorems and Definitions

• Lorentz Transformation
• Lorentz Ether Theory
• Lorentz Force
• Lorentz-Fitzgerald Contraction (with George Francis FitzGerald)
• Lorentzian Metric
• Lorentz Factor
• Rayleigh-Lorentz Pendulum (with Lord Rayleigh)
• Abraham-Lorentz-Dirac Force (with Max Abraham and Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac)

• Zeeman Effect (with Pieter Zeeman)

Results named for Hendrik Antoon Lorentz can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Hendrik Antoon Lorentz can be found here.

Publications

• 1900: Considerations on Gravitation
• 1927 -- 31: Lectures on Theoretical Physics (vol. I–III),

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Hendrik Antoon Lorentz": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon FRS (1853-1928)