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1902 in Netherlands

Explore 4 historical events and records for Netherlands in 1902.

Historical records for Netherlands in 1902

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Nobel Prize in Physics

Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon ยท Stockholm ยท Physicist ยท Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for research on the influence of magnetism on radiation.

Nobel Prize in Physics

Zeeman, Pieter ยท Stockholm ยท Physicist ยท Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the effect of magnetism on light spectra.

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Nobel Prize

Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon ยท Stockholm ยท Physicist ยท Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for research on the influence of magnetism upon radiation phenomena and for developing the electron theory used to explain the Zeeman effect.

Nobel Prize

Zeeman, Pieter ยท Stockholm ยท Physicist ยท Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering that magnetic fields split spectral lines, providing experimental evidence for the interaction between magnetism and light.

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