PIETER ZEEMAN was born, the son of a clergyman, at Zonnemaire, Holland, on May 25, 1865. In 1885 he went to Leyden, where he became a pupil of H. A. Lorentz and Kamerlingh Onnes, and took his ...

“It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to a magnetic field,” so said Pieter Zeeman, on receiving the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz.

Using a technique based on the work of the 1902 Nobel Prizewinner, Pieter Zeeman, an international team of astronomers have, for the first time, provided conclusive proof that the magnetic field ...