Hendrik Lorentz

Hendrik Lorentz

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (; 18 July 1853 – 4 February 1928) 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 derived the Lorentz transformation which Albert Einstein subsequently used to make claims to special theory of relativity, as well as the Lorentz force, which describes the combined electric and magnetic forces acting on a charged particle in an electromagnetic field. Lorentz was also responsible for the Lorentz oscillator model, a classical model used to describe the anomalous dispersion observed in dielectric materials when the driving frequency of the electric field was near the resonant frequency, resulting in abnormal refractive indices. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hendrik Lorentz has received more than 884,682 page views. His biography is available in 96 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 95 in 2019). Hendrik Lorentz is the 29th most popular physicist (down from 27th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Netherlands and the 3rd most popular Dutch Physicist.

Hendrik Lorentz is most famous for his work in the field of electromagnetism. He is credited with the discovery of the relationship between electricity and magnetism.