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Pieter Zeeman : from village boy to Nobel Laureate in physics / A. J. Kox and H. F. Schatz.

Oxford Scholarship Online: Physics Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Kox, Anne J., author.
Schatz, H. F., author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Zeeman, Pieter, 1865-1943.
Zeeman, Pieter.
Nobel Prize winners--Netherlands--Biography.
Nobel Prize winners.
Physicists--Netherlands--Biography.
Physicists.
Netherlands.
Genre:
Biographies
Biographies.
Physical Description:
1 online resource : illustrations
Place of Publication:
Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Summary:
This biography of the life and science of 20th Century physicist Pieter Zeeman draws on a wealth of newly discovered material to describe his life and work, offering enlightening details about his personal life.
Contents:
Liberal parson’s family in Zeeland
Another final examination in Delft
The Leiden years
Zeeman and Dordrecht
Rich girl
Zeeman’s great discovery
Lector and professor
Young family in the big city
Professor and director
The Great War
Living in grandeur
The new laboratory
Inside and outside the home
Final years.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Academic, viewed April 24, 2026).
Other Format:
Print version: Pieter Zeeman. Pieter Zeeman.
ISBN:
9780191994722
0191994723
0198887469
9780198887461
OCLC:
1551298712
Publisher Number:
CIPO000316871
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license

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