Hendrik Lorentz

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect. He also derived the transformation equations which formed the basis of the special relativity theory of Albert Einstein.

Hendrik Lorentz was born in Arnhem, Gelderland , the son of Gerrit Frederik Lorentz , a welloff nurseryman, and Geertruida van Ginkel . In 1862, after his mothers death, his father married Luberta Hupkes. Despite being raised as a Protestant, he was a freethinker in religious matters. From 1866 to 1869 he attended the Hogere Burger School in Arnhem, a new type of public high school recently established by Johan Rudolph Thorbecke. His results in school were exemplary not only did he excel in the physical sciences and math, but also in English, French, and German. In 1870 he passed the exams in classical languages which were then required for admission to University.

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