Mathematician:Hendrik Antoon Lorentz

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

Also derived the transformation equations underpinning '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 )
 * Lorentzian Metric
 * Lorentz Factor
 * Rayleigh-Lorentz Pendulum (with )
 * Abraham-Lorentz-Dirac Force (with and )


 * Zeeman Effect (with )

Publications

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