Pieter Zeeman
Pieter Zeeman
Pieter Zeemanwas a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for his discovery of the Zeeman effect...
NationalityDutch
ProfessionPhysicist
Date of Birth25 May 1865
circular conceived electron movements split
Now all oscillatory movements of such an electron can be conceived of as being split up into force, and two circular oscillations perpendicular to this direction rotating in opposite directions.
exception-to-the-rule giving lines
Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets.
rotation sodium vapour
The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour.