Pieter Zeeman was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for his discovery of the Zeeman effect.
Zeeman c. 1920
Portrait of Pieter Zeeman by Jan Veth, 1925.
Albert Einstein visiting Pieter Zeeman in Amsterdam, accompanied by Paul Ehrenfest (circa 1920).
1929 Autochrome by Georges Chevalier
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect. He derived the Lorentz transformation of the special theory of relativity, as well as the Lorentz force, which describes the combined electric and magnetic forces acting on a charged particle in an electromagnetic field. Lorentz was also responsible for the Lorentz oscillator model, a classical model used to describe the anomalous dispersion observed in dielectric materials when the driving frequency of the electric field was near the resonant frequency, resulting in abnormal refractive indices.
Lorentz in 1902
Painting of Hendrik Lorentz by Menso Kamerlingh Onnes, 1916
Portrait by Jan Veth
Albert Einstein and Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, photographed by Ehrenfest in front of his home in Leiden in 1921