Hendrik Lorentz
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 1902in recognition of the extraordinary service they rendered by their researches into the influence of magnetism upon radiation phenomenaTogether with: Pieter Zeeman
- Citizenship
Kingdom of the Netherlands- Languages
- Dutch
- date of birth
- 7/18/1853
- place of birth
- Arnhem
- date of death
- 2/4/1928
- place of death
- Haarlem
- Lived
- 74 years
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- occupation
- university teacher
- physicist
- mathematician
- theoretical physicist
- botanist
- curator
- field of work
- theoretical physics
- educated at
- Leiden University
- academic degree: Doctor
- start time: 1870
- end time: 1875
- Leiden University
- employer
- Leiden University
- start time: 11/17/1877
- end time: 9/25/1912
- Leiden University
- start time: 9/25/1912
- end time: 9/17/1923
- Teylers Museum
- start time: 1912
- end time: 1928
- Leiden University
- position held
- rector magnificus of Leiden University
- start time: 1899
- end time: 1900
- rector magnificus of Leiden University
- work location
- Leiden
- member of
- Royal Society of London
- start time: 5/11/1905
- French Academy of Sciences
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Academy of Sciences of the USSR
- Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1906
- Academy of Sciences of Turin
- start time: 6/14/1903
- Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- start time: 7/21/1902
- Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL
- Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
- Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Philosophical Society
- start time: 1906
- Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Russian Academy of Sciences
- Romanian Academy
- Royal Society of London
- doctoral student
- Edward August Otto Was
- Abraham Cornelis van Rijn van Alkemade
- M. J. H. Houba
- Willem van Loghem
- Pieter Coenraad Frederik Frowein
- J. E. Couvée
- H. van der Kamp
- Evert Jan Evers
- H. C. Los
- Daniël Raymond Thierry
- D. P. A. Verrijp
- Pieter Gerlof Tiddens
- August Winter
- H. A. B. Bockwinkel
- J. Reudler
- Eva Dina Bruins
- Johannes van Slingelandt
- W. van den Berg
- Hendrika Johanna van Leeuwen
- Johannes Droste
- Geertruida de Haas-Lorentz
- Adriaan Daniel Fokker
- Johan Adriaan Vollgraff
- Hendrik Bremekamp
- Leonard Ornstein
- notable work
- Lorentz covariance
- Tauc–Lorentz model
- Lorentz–Heaviside units
- Lorentz group
- Lorentz force
- Lorentz oscillator
- Lorentz ether theory
- Lorentz transformation
- Abraham–Lorentz force
- Lorentz-Drude model
- Lorentz factor
- length contraction
- Lorentz–Lorenz equation