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Born July 18, 1853 • Arnhem • Netherlands
Died February 4, 1928 (aged 74) • Haarlem • Netherlands
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1918) • Nobel Prize (1902)
Subjects Of Study Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction • Lorentz transformations • Zeeman effect • electromagnetic radiation

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