Awards & Winners

Hendrik Lorentz

Date of Birth 18-July-1853
Place of Birth Arnhem
(Netherlands, Gelderland, Kingdom of the Netherlands)
Nationality Netherlands
Also know as Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, H. A. Lorentz
Profession Physicist
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect. He also derived the transformation equations subsequently used by Albert Einstein to describe space and time.

Awards by Hendrik Lorentz

Check all the awards nominated and won by Hendrik Lorentz.

1918


Copley Medal
(On the ground of his distinguished researches in mathematical physics.)

1908


Rumford Medal
(On the ground of his investigations in optical and electrical science.)

1902


Nobel Prize in Physics
(in recognition of the extraordinary service they rendered by their researches into the influence of magnetism upon radiation phenomena)