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14 quotes by Pieter Zeeman

Pieter Zeeman Born (1865-05-25)25 May 1865 Zonnemaire, Netherlands Died 9 October 1943(1943-10-09) (aged 78) Amsterdam, Netherlands Nationality Netherlands Fields Physics Alma mater University of Leiden Doctoral advisor Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Known for Zeeman effect Notable awards Nobel Prize for Physics (1902) Matteucci Medal (1912) Henry Draper Medal (1921) Rumford Medal (1922) Franklin Medal (1925) Spouse Johanna Elisabeth...
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The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour.

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The magnetic cleavage of the spectral lines is dependent on the size of the charge of the electron, or, more accurately, on the ratio between the... →

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Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportional to the displacement restores it like a... →

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I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory, owing to the extreme... →

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According to well-known electrodynamic laws, an electron moving in a magnetic field is acted upon by a force which runs perpendicular to the... →

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In the absence of a magnetic field the period of all these oscillations is the same. But as soon as the electron is exposed to the effect of a... →

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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... →

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Now all oscillatory movements of such an electron can be conceived of as being split up into force, and two circular oscillations perpendicular to... →

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Had we really succeeded therefore in altering the period of vibration, which Maxwell, as I have just noted, held to be impossible? Or was there some... →

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I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my... →

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It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The idea came to me during an investigation of... →

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Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be... →

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On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains a... →

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