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'''Hendrik Lorentz''' (1853-1928) was a brilliant [[Netherlands|Dutch]] physicist who, in addition to [[Henri Poincaré]], developed a mathematical [[theory of relativity]]. | '''Hendrik Lorentz''' (1853-1928) was a brilliant [[Netherlands|Dutch]] physicist who, in addition to [[Henri Poincaré]], developed a mathematical [[theory of relativity]]. | ||
Revision as of 16:50, August 16, 2011
Hendrik Lorentz (1853-1928) was a brilliant Dutch physicist who, in addition to Henri Poincaré, developed a mathematical theory of relativity.
Lorentz's first achievement was in his doctoral thesis when he refined Maxwell's electromagnetic theory in his doctoral thesis. In 1878, he became professor of mathematical physics at Leiden University. Later he moved to the Teyler Institute, Harlem.
The existence of electrons had not yet been proven, but Lorentz proposed that light waves resulted from oscillations of an atomic electric charge. In 1902, Lorentz received the Nobel Prize along with his student for developing a mathematical theory of the electron.
Lorentz's most famous work is the Lorentz contraction for an object traveling at relativistic speeds, which he introduced in 1904.[1] This predicts that mass will increase and shorten its length at speeds approaching the speed of light, and that time dilation of such a body occurs.
Lorentz always hoped that quantum theory could be described by classical mechanics.