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Pieter Zeeman

1865 - 1943

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Pieter Zeeman ( ZEY-mahn; Dutch: [ˈzeːmɑn] ; 25 May 1865 – 9 October 1943) was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for their discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pieter Zeeman is the 42nd most popular physicist (up from 43rd in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 21st 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 42 out of 851. Before him are Louis de Broglie, Hendrik Lorentz, Daniel Bernoulli, Lise Meitner, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, and Charles H. Townes. After him are William Gilbert, Luigi Galvani, Nevill Francis Mott, David J. Thouless, Charles Édouard Guillaume, and Philip Warren Anderson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Pieter Zeeman ranks 3. Before him are George V, and Jean Sibelius. After him are Rudyard Kipling, Erich Ludendorff, Archduke Otto of Austria, Ferdinand I of Romania, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Arthur Harden, Warren G. Harding, W. B. Yeats, and Carl Nielsen. Among people deceased in 1943, Pieter Zeeman ranks 4. Before him are Nikola Tesla, David Hilbert, and Sergei Rachmaninoff. After him are Karl Landsteiner, George Washington Carver, Camille Claudel, Isoroku Yamamoto, Simone Weil, Henrik Pontoppidan, Leslie Howard, and Boris III of Bulgaria.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Pieter Zeeman ranks 20 out of 1,646. Before him are Christiaan Huygens (1629), Hendrik Lorentz (1853), Beatrix of the Netherlands (1938), Daniel Bernoulli (1700), Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852), and Hugo Grotius (1583). After him are Abel Tasman (1603), Sophia of Hanover (1630), Willem Barentsz (1550), Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853), M. C. Escher (1898), and Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (1880).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Netherlands

Among physicists born in Netherlands, Pieter Zeeman ranks 4. Before him are Christiaan Huygens (1629), Hendrik Lorentz (1853), and Daniel Bernoulli (1700). After him are Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853), Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837), Peter Debye (1884), Simon van der Meer (1925), Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920), Frits Zernike (1888), Martinus J. G. Veltman (1931), and Gerard 't Hooft (1946).

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