Definition of Pieter Zeeman

1. Noun. Dutch physicist honored for his research on the influence of magnetism on radiation which showed that light is radiated by the motion of charged particles in an atom (1865-1943).

Exact synonyms: Zeeman
Generic synonyms: Physicist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pieter Zeeman

Pierre Larousse
Pierre Simon de Laplace
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Pierre Terrail
Pierre Trudeau salute
Pierre de Fermat
Pierre de Terrail
Pierrot
Pierrots
Piers
Piet Mondrian
Pieter Breughel
Pieter Bruegel
Pieter Brueghel
Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Pieter Zeeman (current term)
Pignet's formula
Pigovian
Piirissaar
Pijin
Pikachu
Pikachus
Pike
Pike's Peak
Pilate
Pilates
Pilea
Pilea involucrata
Pilea microphylla
Pilea pumilla

Literary usage of Pieter Zeeman

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"Zeeman Effect, a phenomenon highly important in connection with theoretical physics, discovered in 1897 by Dr. Pieter Zeeman, of the University of Amsterdam ..."

2. Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope by H. C. V. Leibbrandt, Jan van Riebeeck (1906)
"Verlee, and another in the garden of the burgher Pieter Zeeman, called " De Roode Hek "—the main •store to be in charge of Hermanus van ..."

3. Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope: Requesten (memorials) 1715-1806 by Hendrik Carel Vos Leibbrandt, Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Archives, South African Library (1906)
"Verlee, and another in the garden of the burgher Pieter Zeeman, called " De Roode Hek "—the main store to be in charge of Hermanus van ..."

4. Methods and Styles in the Development of Chemistry by Joseph Stewart Fruton (2002)
"... early in 1897 a paper by Pieter Zeeman reported that a magnetic field elicited a shift in the wavelength of the spectral lines emitted by incandescent ..."

5. Methods and Styles in the Development of Chemistry by Joseph Stewart Fruton (2002)
"... early in 1897 a paper by Pieter Zeeman reported that a magnetic field elicited a shift in the wavelength of the spectral lines emitted by incandescent ..."

6. Eminent Chemists of Our Time by Benjamin Harrow (1920)
"... HA Lorentz and Pieter Zeeman; in medicine, to Ronald Ross, the malaria hero; and in literature,"to Theodor Mommsen, the Roman historian. ..."

7. Eminent Chemists of Our Time by Benjamin Harrow (1920)
"... HA Lorentz and Pieter Zeeman; in medicine, to Ronald Ross, the malaria hero; and in literature,rto Theodor Mommsen, the Roman historian. ..."

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