When1: 1892
When2: 1904
Who: Hendrik Lorentz [Lorentz, Hendrik]
What: physicist
Where: Netherlands
Detail: He lived 1853 to 1928. He studied Zeeman effect [1892]. He said that matter moving near light speed contracts in motion direction {Fitzgerald-Lorentz contraction, Lorentz} [1892]. He invented motion equations {Lorentz equations of motion} for charged particles in electromagnetic fields [1895], whereas Maxwell's equations are for electromagnetic-field changes. He invented Einstein-Lorentz transformations [1904].
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