Lorentz

[ lawr-uhnts, lohr-; Dutch loh-rents ]

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Hen·drik An·toon [hen, -d, r, ik , ahn, -tohn], 1853–1928, Dutch physicist: Nobel Prize 1902.

Lorentz

/ ˈloːrənts /

LorentzHendrik Antoon18531928MDutchSCIENCE: physicist Hendrik Antoon (ˈhɛndrɪk ˈantoːn). 1853–1928, Dutch physicist: shared the Nobel prize for physics (1902) with Zeeman for their work on electromagnetic theory

Lorentz

/ lôr′ənts /

Dutch physicist who was one of the first to develop theories of the electron, for which he shared the 1902 Nobel Prize for physics with Pieter Zeeman. His ideas on the invariance of physical laws with respect to time and space paved the way for Albert Einstein's theory of Special Relativity.

Lorentz is not afraid to explore the best and the worst in her protagonists.

“A lot of extremity you see in YA is merely attempting to capture the intensity” of being a teen, Lorentz says.

Burke escaped and most of the goods went across the Atlantic to Brandenburg, but Lorentz seems to have been honest.

However ingenious this attempt may be, the defect of the theory of Lorentz remains and is even aggravated.

According to the theory of Lorentz, currents of conduction themselves would be true currents of convection.

But fresh researches have not confirmed them, and the theory of Lorentz has victoriously stood the test.

Their task was not easy, and if Lorentz has got through it, it is only by accumulating hypotheses.

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