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| | Pieter Zeeman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Pieter Zeeman (Zonnemaire (Schouwen-Duiveland), Netherlands, May 25, 1865 – Amsterdam, October 9, 1943) (IPA [zeɪmɑn]) was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for his discovery of the Zeeman effect. |
 | | Born in Zonnemaire, Netherlands to Catharinus Forandinus Zeeman and Wilhelmina Worst, Zeeman was a student of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes at the University of Leiden. |
 | | In 1896, at the request of Lorentz, he began investigating the effect of magnetic fields on a light source and discovered what is now known as the Zeeman effect. |
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