Which two Dutch physicists shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1902 for the influence of magnetism on radiation?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B. Hendrik Lorentz and Pieter Zeeman, who worked in Leiden and Amsterdam
- Step 1: The effect is named after one of them. Step 2. It is the Zeeman effect. Answer: Lorentz and Zeeman. Why not the others: Kamerlingh Onnes won in 1913, Van der Waals in 1910, and Einthoven won a medicine prize.
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