Pieter Zeeman - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1902
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Pieter Zeeman

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1902
in recognition of the extraordinary service they rendered by their researches into the influence of magnetism upon radiation phenomena
Together with: Hendrik Lorentz
Citizenship
Kingdom of the NetherlandsKingdom of the Netherlands
Languages
English, Dutch
date of birth
5/25/1865
place of birth
Professor Zeemanstraat 15, Zonnemaire
date of death
10/9/1943
place of death
Amsterdam
Lived
78 years
occupation
  • university teacher
  • physicist
  • photographer
field of work
  • magnetic field
  • Zeeman effect
  • magnetism
  • physics
educated at
  • Leiden University
employer
  • Leiden University
  • University of Amsterdam
    • start time: 12/2/1896
    • end time: 1/17/1900
  • University of Amsterdam
    • start time: 1/17/1900
    • end time: 9/1/1908
  • University of Amsterdam
    • start time: 9/1/1908
    • end time: 9/16/1935
  • Delft University of Technology
    • start time: 1884
    • end time: 1885
  • Delft University of Technology
    • start time: 1885
    • end time: 1902
position held
  • Rector of the university of Amsterdam
member of
  • Royal Society of London
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • Academy of Sciences of Turin
    • start time: 5/15/1910
  • Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 8/13/1909
  • Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
  • Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
doctoral student
  • Pier Bosch
  • Take Luite de Bruin
  • Frederik Coeterier
  • Hillebrand Willem Johan Dik
  • Maria Clasina Droste
  • Jacobus Marinus Faber
  • Jan Geest
  • Albert Jacobus Jozef Gerver
  • Herman R. Woltjer
  • Willem de Groot
  • Cornelis Jan Bakker
  • Hendrika Brigitta van Meurs
notable work
  • Zeeman effect
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