| Authorised form of name | Lorentz; Hendrik Antoon (1853 - 1928) |
| Surname | Lorentz |
| Forenames | Hendrik Antoon |
| Dates | 1853 - 1928 |
| Dates and places | Birth:
Arnhem, Netherlands (18 July 1853)
Death:
Haarlem, Netherlands (04 February 1928) |
| Activity | Research Field:
Theoretical physics |
| Royal Society activity | Membership:
Foreign Member
Election Date:
11/05/1905
Medals/Prizes:
Rumford Medal 1908; Copley Medal 1918; Nobel Prize (Physics) 1902 |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1928 vol 121 pp xx-xxviii, plate, signed by O W R
References:
J S Rowlinson, 'Le Sage's Essai de chymie mechanique' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 35-45
J S Rowlinson, 'Gases and liquids. How fluids unmix: discoveries by the school of Van der Waals and Kamerlingh Onnes, by J L Sengers' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 255-256
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 |
| Royal Society code | NA1525 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1905/18 | Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/30/753 | Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Professor Hugo de Vries, Amsterdam, and Henri Moissan, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz and Ludimar Hermann, [Foreign Members, Royal Society] | 18 May 1905 |
| NLB/39/266 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor H [Hendrik] A [Antoon] Lorentz | 17 December 1908 |
| NLB/38/740 | Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Foreign Member of the Royal Society | 29 October 1908 |
| NLB/56/56 | Copy letter from Dr. Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hendrik Antoon] Lorentz | 7 November 1918 |
| NLB/56/110 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Netherlands Minister | 25 November 1918 |
| NLB/56/468 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hendrik Antoon] Lorentz, FRS | 17 February 1919 |
| NLB/60/196 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Messrs Harrison & Sons] | 22 December 1920 |
| NLB/61/280 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hendrik Antoon] Lorentz, FRS | 16 June 1921 |
| NLB/68/921 | Copy letter from Charles Scott Sherrington, President of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hendrick Antoon] Lorentz, ForMemRS | 30 November 1925 |
| NLB/71/804 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Editor 'Nature' | 5 November 1928 |
| NLB/71/195 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; [to the organisers of the funeral of Prof. Hendrik Antoon Lorentz] | 7 February 1928 |
| CD/24/15 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society, to Professor [Hendrik Antoon] Lorentz | 16 June 1921 |
| CD/24/11 | Letter from [Hendrik Antoon] Lorentz, to Professor [James Hopwood] Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society | 11 June 1921 |
| NLB/56/57 | Copy letter from Dr. Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Deputy Master of the [Royal] Mint | 7 November 1918 |