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the life and science of Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
1 online resource (xiii, 281 pages) : illustrations.
This biography describes the life of Lorentz, from his early childhood, as the son of a market gardener in the provincial town of Arnhem, to his death, as a towering figure in physics and in international scientific cooperation, and as a trailblazer for Einstein's relativity theory.
Prologue -- Chapter 1: Childhood and student years -- Chapter 2: Professorship and family life -- Chapter 3: Aletta, woman in her own right -- Chapter 4: Early work and the Theory of Electrons -- Chapter 5: The new century: Prospect and retrospect -- Chapter 6: Nobel Prize and international recognition -- Chapter 7: Haarlem, Einstein, Ehrenfest, and Solvay -- Chapter 8: Quantum theory and the General Theory of Relativity -- Chapter 9: World War One -- Chapter 10: The Zuiderzee Commission -- Chapter 11: International cooperation in crisis -- Chapter 12: The final years: Travel and tributes -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index -- Family tree.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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