Ten fun facts about Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
Fact 1
Lorentz was the basis of the transformation equations that were lately used by Albert Einstein.
Fact 2
He was raised a Protestant, but remained a freethinker regarding religious matters.
Fact 3
In 1902, he received the Nobel Prize in physics. His name is used in several scientific phrases including the Lorentz force.
Fact 4In 1905, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and awarded the Rumford Medal.
Fact 5There is a digitized film version of his funeral available on YouTube. Einstein read a eulogy at it.
Fact 6Lorentz founded a committee that later resulted in finding the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research.
Fact 7He resigned from his work of physics at Leiden University in 1912.
Fact 8He appointed Paul Ehrenfest to take his chair at the University. Ehrenfest founded what is now known as the Lorentz Institute.
Fact 9Lorentz was one of the few scientists to support Einstein in the beginning of his search for general relativity.
Fact 10One of the two lock sets in the Enclosure Damn was named after Lorentz.
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