Pieter Zeeman
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Pieter Zeeman
Was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for his discovery of the Zeeman effect.
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The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour.
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Born:
25 May 1865 Zonnemaire, Netherlands
Died:
9 October 1943 (aged 78) Amsterdam, Netherlands
Family:
Catherina Verbeek (mother), Pieter Zeeman (father), Maartje Zeeman (sister), Jacob Zeeman (brother)
Spouse:
Johanna Elisabeth Lebret
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How light was affected by magnetic fields.

He shared with Hendrik A. Lorentz the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1902 for his discovery of the Zeeman effect.