Hendrik Lorentz (18 July 1853 – 4 February 1928) was a Dutch physicist. He received the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Life and Career
He was born on 18 July 1853, in Arnhem, Netherlands. He enrolled in the Hogere Burger School in Arnhem in 1866. In 1870, he finished his classical language course to qualify for university.
In 1870, he enrolled at the University of Leiden and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in science. Lorentz went back to his hometown and worked at an evening school while doing research for his thesis on the reflection and refraction of light.
He earned his doctorate in 1875. His thesis was about the refraction and reflection of light, and he extended Maxwell’s electromagnetic theory with it.
Hendrik Lorentz Quotes
Here are quotes of Shmuel Hendrik Lorentz:
I cannot but regard the ether, which can be the seat of an electromagnetic field with its energy and its vibrations, as endowed with a certain degree of substantiality, however different it may be from all ordinary matter.