A Living Work of Art: The Life and Science of Hendrik Antoon Lorentz

A Living Work of Art: The Life and Science of Hendrik Antoon Lorentz – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780198870500,0198870507,9780192643360, 0192643363

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎0192643363
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780192643360
• Author: A. J. Kox, H. F. Schatz

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was one of the greatest physicists and mathematicians the Netherlands has ever known. Einstein called him “a living work of art, a perfect personality”. During his funeral in 1928, the entire Dutch nation mourned. The national telegraph service was suspended for three minutes and his passing was national and international front-page news. The cream of international science, an impressive list of dignitaries, including the Prince Consort, and thousands of ordinary people turned out to see Lorentz being carried to his last resting place.

Table contents:

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

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