The Nobel Prize in Physics 1902

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz

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Prize share: 1/2

Pieter Zeeman

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Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1902 was awarded jointly to Hendrik Antoon Lorentz and Pieter Zeeman "in recognition of the extraordinary service they rendered by their researches into the influence of magnetism upon radiation phenomena"

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