Hendrik Antoon Lorentz1892
Lorentz develops electron theory and uses contraction ideas in attempts to account for electromagnetic experiments
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Lorentz develops electron theory and uses contraction ideas in attempts to account for electromagnetic experiments
Lorentz introduces local time in electromagnetic theory, a step toward the later Lorentz transformations
Lorentz publishes transformations that preserve the form of Maxwells equations for moving systems
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