Lorentz
Hen·drik An·toon [hen-drik ahn-tohn], /ˈhɛn drɪk ˈɑn toʊn/, 1853–1928, Dutch physicist: Nobel Prize 1902.
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Lorentz is not afraid to explore the best and the worst in her protagonists.
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However ingenious this attempt may be, the defect of the theory of Lorentz remains and is even aggravated.
According to the theory of Lorentz, currents of conduction themselves would be true currents of convection.
But fresh researches have not confirmed them, and the theory of Lorentz has victoriously stood the test.
Their task was not easy, and if Lorentz has got through it, it is only by accumulating hypotheses.
British Dictionary definitions for Lorentz
/ (Dutch ˈloːrənts) /
Hendrik Antoon (ˈhɛndrɪk ˈantoːn). 1853–1928, Dutch physicist: shared the Nobel prize for physics (1902) with Zeeman for their work on electromagnetic theory
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Scientific definitions for Lorentz
[ lôr′ənts ]
Dutch physicist who was one of the first to develop theories of the electron, for which he shared the 1902 Nobel Prize for physics with Pieter Zeeman. His ideas on the invariance of physical laws with respect to time and space paved the way for Albert Einstein's theory of Special Relativity.
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