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Authorised form of name	Lorentz; Hendrik Antoon (1853 - 1928)
Dates	1853 - 1928
Place of birth	Arnhem, Netherlands
Date of birth	18 July 1853
Place of death	Haarlem, Netherlands
Date of death	04/02/1928
Research field	Theoretical physics
Activity	Medals and prizes: Nobel Prize (Physics) 1902
Membership category	Foreign Member
Date of election	11/05/1905
RSActivity	Medals and prizes: Rumford Medal 1908; Copley Medal 1918
Source	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
Code	NA1525

Archives associated with this Fellow

RefNo	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/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
MC/23/267	Letter from [Hendrik Antoon] Lorentz, Leiden, to [The Royal Society]	22 December 1908
MC/23/266	Letter from [Hendrik Antoon] Lorentz, Leiden, to the President and Council of the Royal Society	3 November 1908
NLB/38/740	Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Foreign Member of the Royal Society	29 October 1908
NLB/39/266	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor H [Hendrik] A [Antoon] Lorentz	17 December 1908
MC/20/140	Letter from [Hendrik Antoon] Lorentz, Lesden, to the Council and Members of the Royal Society, London	25 May 1905
MC/20/141	Letter from [Hendrik Antoon] Lorentz, Lesden, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society, London	18 June 1905
MC/33/110	Letter from [Hendrik Antoon] Lorentz, Haarlem, Netherlands, to the President and Council of the Royal Society	22 November 1918
MC/20	Volume 20 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society	1905

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