Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was widely regarded as the world's leading theoretical physicist at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. His earliest work dealt with optical phenomena, but by 1892 he had begun to develop one of...

The work of the physicist Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853-1928) on electromagnetic theory led to notions equivalent to some basic postulates of the special theory of relativity. Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, the son of Gerrit Frederik Lorentz and his wife,...

The work of Hendrik Antoon Lorentz went far in explaining and elaborating on the electromagnetic theory first proposed by James Clerk Maxwell. Not only did Lorentz explain the Zeeman effect and name the electron, but he also advanced a theory about...

1853-1928 Dutch theoretical physicist best known for codeveloping the Lorentz-Fitzgerald transformations. Derived in 1892 from his theory of electrons, these equations allowed Lorentz to account for the Michelson-Morely null-result. Albert Einstein...

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (July 18, 1853, Arnhem – February 4, 1928, Haarlem) was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect. Lorentz developed...

TIM GLOVER reports from Pretoria Pieter Hendriks, whose try inspired the Springboks in the opening World Cup game against Australia, was banned from the competition yesterday. However, the good news for South Africa is that Chester Williams, their only black international, returns...

Pare Lorentz, 86, a director and producer of highly acclaimed documentary films aimed at explaining issues of the New Deal to the American public, died March 4 at his home in Armonk, N.Y. He had cancer. Mr. Lorentz made his first film, "The...