1865 - 1943
Pieter Zeeman (Dutch: [ˈzeːmɑn]; 25 May 1865 – 9 October 1943) was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for his discovery of the Zeeman effect. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pieter Zeeman has received more than 247,866 page views. His biography is available in 90 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 89 in 2019). Pieter Zeeman is the 39th most popular physicist (up from 40th in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 23rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Dutch Physicist.
Pieter Zeeman is most famous for his discovery of the Zeeman effect, which is the splitting of a spectral line into several components in the presence of a magnetic field.
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Among physicists, Pieter Zeeman ranks 39 out of 717. Before him are Louis de Broglie, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, William Gilbert, Paul Dirac, Léon Foucault, and Lise Meitner. After him are J. J. Thomson, Wolfgang Pauli, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Ernst Mach, Andrei Sakharov, and Thomas Young.
1892 - 1987
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 33
1686 - 1736
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 34
1544 - 1603
HPI: 73.61
Rank: 35
1902 - 1984
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 36
1819 - 1868
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 37
1878 - 1968
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 38
1865 - 1943
HPI: 73.31
Rank: 39
1856 - 1940
HPI: 73.01
Rank: 40
1900 - 1958
HPI: 72.86
Rank: 41
1900 - 1958
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 42
1838 - 1916
HPI: 72.68
Rank: 43
1921 - 1989
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 44
1773 - 1829
HPI: 72.42
Rank: 45
Among people born in 1865, Pieter Zeeman ranks 4. Before him are Jean Sibelius, George V, and Rudyard Kipling. After him are Erich Ludendorff, Ferdinand I of Romania, Warren G. Harding, Archduke Otto of Austria, W. B. Yeats, Alexander Glazunov, Carl Nielsen, and Paul Dukas. Among people deceased in 1943, Pieter Zeeman ranks 6. Before him are Nikola Tesla, Sergei Rachmaninoff, David Hilbert, Karl Landsteiner, and Isoroku Yamamoto. After him are Camille Claudel, Simone Weil, Boris III of Bulgaria, Henrik Pontoppidan, Theodor Eicke, and Yakov Dzhugashvili.
1865 - 1957
HPI: 76.20
Rank: 1
1865 - 1936
HPI: 75.17
Rank: 2
1865 - 1936
HPI: 74.83
Rank: 3
1865 - 1943
HPI: 73.31
Rank: 4
1865 - 1937
HPI: 72.71
Rank: 5
1865 - 1927
HPI: 69.62
Rank: 6
1865 - 1923
HPI: 69.16
Rank: 7
1865 - 1906
HPI: 69.16
Rank: 8
1865 - 1939
HPI: 67.85
Rank: 9
1865 - 1936
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 10
1865 - 1931
HPI: 66.82
Rank: 11
1865 - 1935
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 12
1856 - 1943
HPI: 90.69
Rank: 1
1873 - 1943
HPI: 77.57
Rank: 2
1862 - 1943
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 3
1868 - 1943
HPI: 73.99
Rank: 4
1884 - 1943
HPI: 73.54
Rank: 5
1865 - 1943
HPI: 73.31
Rank: 6
1864 - 1943
HPI: 71.39
Rank: 7
1909 - 1943
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 8
1894 - 1943
HPI: 71.03
Rank: 9
1857 - 1943
HPI: 70.82
Rank: 10
1892 - 1943
HPI: 69.17
Rank: 11
1907 - 1943
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 12
Among people born in Netherlands, Pieter Zeeman ranks 21 out of 1,427. Before him are Beatrix of the Netherlands (1938), Daniel Bernoulli (1700), Hendrik Lorentz (1853), M. C. Escher (1898), William III of England (1650), and Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852). After him are Pope Adrian VI (1459), Willem Barentsz (1550), Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837), Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (1880), Juliana of the Netherlands (1909), and Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853).
1938 - Present
HPI: 76.26
Rank: 15
1700 - 1782
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 16
1853 - 1928
HPI: 74.96
Rank: 17
1898 - 1972
HPI: 74.69
Rank: 18
1650 - 1702
HPI: 74.02
Rank: 19
1852 - 1911
HPI: 73.64
Rank: 20
1865 - 1943
HPI: 73.31
Rank: 21
1459 - 1523
HPI: 73.09
Rank: 22
1550 - 1597
HPI: 73.00
Rank: 23
1837 - 1923
HPI: 72.40
Rank: 24
1880 - 1962
HPI: 72.28
Rank: 25
1909 - 2004
HPI: 72.14
Rank: 26
1853 - 1926
HPI: 71.57
Rank: 27
Among physicists born in Netherlands, Pieter Zeeman ranks 4. Before him are Christiaan Huygens (1629), Daniel Bernoulli (1700), and Hendrik Lorentz (1853). After him are Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837), Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853), Peter Debye (1884), Frits Zernike (1888), Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920), Martinus J. G. Veltman (1931), Simon van der Meer (1925), and Jan Ingenhousz (1730).
1629 - 1695
HPI: 77.71
Rank: 1
1700 - 1782
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 2
1853 - 1928
HPI: 74.96
Rank: 3
1865 - 1943
HPI: 73.31
Rank: 4
1837 - 1923
HPI: 72.40
Rank: 5
1853 - 1926
HPI: 71.57
Rank: 6
1884 - 1966
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 7
1888 - 1966
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 8
1920 - 2017
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 9
1931 - 2021
HPI: 63.98
Rank: 10
1925 - 2011
HPI: 62.27
Rank: 11
1730 - 1799
HPI: 59.80
Rank: 12