Person
Pieter Zeeman
1865 – 1943 · aged 78
Dutch physicist (1865–1943)
- Born
- 25 May 1865 · Zonnemaire
- Died
- 9 Oct 1943 · Amsterdam
Life timeline
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- 25 May 1865BornBorn in Zonnemaire
- 1902AwardNobel Prize in Physics
- 1921AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
- 1921AwardHenry Draper Medal
- 1922AwardRumford Medal
- 1925AwardFranklin Medal
- 1930AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Paris
- 1934AwardHonorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg
- 9 Oct 1943DiedDied in Amsterdam
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1865 – 1943).
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
Biography
Pieter Zeeman (25 May 1865 – 9 October 1943) was a Dutch experimental physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for their discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.
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