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 ...

PIETER ZEEMAN is seventy years of age on May 25 and ... number of components each polarised and in general displaced. Prof. Lorentz based his explanation on the motion of electrons in the field ...