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A Living Work of Art - The Life and Science of Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (Hardcover, 1)
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A Living Work of Art - The Life and Science of Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (Hardcover, 1)
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Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was one of the greatest physicists and
mathematicians the Netherlands has ever known. Einstein called him
"a living work of art, a perfect personality". During his funeral
in 1928, the entire Dutch nation mourned. The national telegraph
service was suspended for three minutes and his passing was
national and international front-page news. The cream of
international science, an impressive list of dignitaries, including
the Prince Consort, and thousands of ordinary people turned out to
see Lorentz being carried to his last resting place. This biography
describes the life of Lorentz, from his early childhood, as the son
of a market gardener in the provincial town of Arnhem, to his
death, as a towering figure in physics and in international
scientific cooperation and as a trailblazer for Einstein's
relativity theory. A number of chapters shed light on his unique
place in science, the importance of his ideas, his international
conciliatory and scientific activities after World War One, his
close friendship with Albert Einstein, and his important role as
Einstein's teacher and intellectual critic. By making use of
recently discovered family correspondence, the authors were able to
show that there lies a true human being behind Lorentz's facade of
perfection. One chapter is devoted to Lorentz's wife Aletta, a
woman in her own right, whose progressive feminist ideas were of
considerable influence on those of her husband. Two separate
chapters focus on his most important scientific achievements, in
terms accessible to a general audience.
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