Pieter Zeeman

Also known as P. Zeeman

Dutch physicist (1865–1943)

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Pieter Zeeman was a Dutch physicist, university teacher, and photographer born in Zonnemaire in 1865. He studied at Leiden University under Heike Kamerlingh Onnes and later taught at Delft University of Technology, the University of Amsterdam, and Leiden University. His primary fields of work included physics, magnetism, and the magnetic field, with the Zeeman effect recognized as his notable work.

Zeeman received the Nobel Prize in Physics, as well as the Henry Draper Medal, Rumford Medal, and Matteucci Medal. He was a member of the Royal Society, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He died in Amsterdam in 1943.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Physics1902
“in recognition of the extraordinary service they rendered by their researches into the influence of magnetism upon radiation phenomena”
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Instance of: human
Given name: Pieter
Gender: male
Citizenship: Kingdom of the Netherlands
Place of death: Amsterdam
Occupation: photographer
Educated at: Leiden University
Employer: Leiden University
Languages spoken: English language
Native language: Dutch
Notable work: Zeeman effect
Doctoral advisor: Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Student of: Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Field of work: magnetic field
Image: Pieter Zeeman.jpg

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member of: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
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date of birth: 1865-05-25
date of death: 1943-10-09
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described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
nominated for: Nobel Prize in Physics
name in native language: Pieter Zeeman
maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Mathematics
interested in: physics

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Pieter Zeeman (25 May 1865 – 9 October 1943) 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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