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Hendrik Lorentz
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (born July 18, 1853 in Arnhem, Netherlands died February 4, 1928 in Haarlem) the winner of the 1902 Nobel Prize for his theory of electromagnetic radiation and primary developer of the theory of relativity (often falsely attributed primarily or solely to Albert Einstein) (see FitzGerald-Lorentz Contraction and Lorentz transformations).
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Lorentz attended primary school in Arnhem until he was 13 years of age when he entered the new High School there. He entered the University of Leiden in 1870 but, in 1872, he returned to Arnhem to take up teaching evening classes.
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He worked for his doctorate while holding the teaching post.
In his doctoral thesis for University of Leiden (1875), Lorentz refined the electromagnetic theory of James Maxwell to better explain the reflection and refraction of light.
He was appointed professor of mathematical physics at the Univiersity of Leiden in 1878. During his time there he was primarily interested in a s