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Pieter Zeeman
Pieter Zeeman (; 25 May 1865 – 9 October 1943) was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for his discovery of the Zeeman effect.
Childhood and youth.
Pieter Zeeman was born in Zonnemaire, a small town on the island of Schouwen-Duiveland, Netherlands, to Catharinus Forandinus Zeeman, a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, and Willemina Worst.
He became interested in physics at an early age. In 1883, the aurora borealis happened to be
van Nederland.
- Biography of "Pieter Zeeman (1865 – 1943)" at the National library of the Netherlands.
- Anne J. Kox, "Wetenschappelijke feiten en postmoderne fictie in de wetenschapsgeschiedenis", Inaugural lecture (1999).
- Pim de Bie, "prof.dr. P. Zeeman Zonnemaire 25 mei 1865 - Amsterdam 9 oktober 1943" Gravesite of Pieter Zeeman
- "Pieter Zeeman", Bijzondere collecties Leiden.
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