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Pieter Zeeman

Pieter ZeemanBorn: 25-May-1865
Birthplace: Zonnemaire, Netherlands
Died: 9-Oct-1943
Location of death: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist

Nationality: Netherlands
Executive summary: Discovered Zeeman Effect

Father: Catharinus Forandinus Zeeman
Mother: Wilhelmina Worst
Wife: Johanna Elisabeth Lebret (m. 1895)

    University: PhD, University of Leiden (1893)
    Professor: University of Leiden (1890-)
    Professor: Physics, University of Amsterdam (1900-)

    Nobel Prize for Physics 1908 (with Hendrik Lorentz)
    Matteucci Medal 1912
    Henry Draper Medal 1921
    Rumford Medal 1922

Author of books:
Researches in Magneto-Optics (1913, physics)



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