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Authorised form of nameZeeman; Pieter (1865 - 1943)
Dates1865 - 1943
Place of birthZonnemaire, Zeeland, Netherlands
Date of birth25 May 1865
Place of deathAmsterdam, Netherlands
Date of death09/10/1943
Research fieldPhysics
ActivityMedals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Physics) 1902
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election05/05/1921
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Rumford Medal 1922
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1942-1944 vol 4 pp 591-595, plate, by Rayleigh
References:
Brebis Bleaney, 'Centenary of the Zeeman Effect' in NR 1998 vol 52 pp 131-136
B Bleaney and O V Lounasmaa, 'Nuclear orientation and nuclear cooling experiments in Oxford and Helsinki. Part 1. Progress before 1940' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 317 - 322
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/103215195
CodeNA5889
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1921/06Zeeman, Pieter: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/14/799Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to J D Sprunt, 20 Lyndhust Gardens, Hampstead, N.W.21 May 1897
NLB/65/933Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor Dr [Pieter] Zeeman, ForMemRS31 January 1924
CD/24/11Letter from [Hendrik Antoon] Lorentz, to Professor [James Hopwood] Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society11 June 1921
NLB/61/89Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Schuster, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society7 May 1921
MC/36/111Letter from Pieter Zeeman, Amsterdam, to Professor [James Hopwood] Jeans11 November 1922
MC/36/110Letter from Pieter Zeeman, Amsterdam, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society16 November 1922
MC/36Volume 36 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1922
MS/928/2/203Letter from Pieter Zeeman, Hotel Cecil, Strand, to Charles Vernon Boys 27 March 1906
MS/603/11/169Letter from P [Pieter] Zeeman], Physical Laboratory, Leiden, to [Joseph Larmor]5 January 1894
MS/603/11/170Letter from P [Pieter] Zeeman], Amsterdam, to [Joseph] Larmor22 February 1898
MS/603/11/171Letter from P [Pieter] Zeeman], Stadhouderskade 158, Amsterdam, to [Joseph] Larmor8 March 1908
MS/603/11/172Letter from P [Pieter] Zeeman], Huis ter Heide, Utrecht, the Netherlands, to [Joseph] Larmor3 August 1908
MS/603/11/173Letter from P [Pieter] Zeeman], Stadhouderskade 158, Amsterdam, to [Joseph] Larmor9 April 1911
MS/603/11/174Letter from P [Pieter] Zeeman], Stadhouderskade 158, Amsterdam, to Sir Joseph Larmor11 December 1911
MS/603/11/175Letter from P [Pieter] Zeeman], Stadhouderskade 158, Amsterdam, to Sir Joseph Larmor27 September 1920
MS/603/11/176Letter from P [Pieter] Zeeman], Zonnehof, Huis ter Heide, Utrecht, to Sir Joseph Larmor24 August 1925
MS/603/11/177Letter from P [Pieter] Zeeman], Zonnehof, Huis ter Heide, Utrecht, to Sir Joseph Larmor2 March 1926
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