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Hendrik Lorentz

Hendrik LorentzAKA Hendrik Antoon Lorentz

Born: 18-Jul-1853
Birthplace: Arnhem, Netherlands
Died: 4-Feb-1928
Location of death: Haarlem, Netherlands
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Physicist

Nationality: Netherlands
Executive summary: Theory of EM radiation

    University: University of Leiden (1875)
    Professor: Mathematical Physics, University of Leiden (1878-1912)

    Nobel Prize for Physics 1902 (with Pieter Zeeman)
    Rumford Medal 1908
    Copley Medal 1918



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