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"A living work of art" : the life and science of Hendrik Antoon Lorentz / A.J. Kox, H.F. Schatz.

Author/creator Kox, Anne J.
Other author/creatorSchatz, H. F.
Other author/creatorOxford University Press.
Format Electronic and Book
EditionFirst edition.
Publication InfoOxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Description280 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Supplemental Content Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online
Supplemental Content Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online Physics
Subject(s)
Uniform titleHendrik Antoon Lorentz. English
Contents Prologue -- Chapter 1: Childhood and student years -- Chapter 2: Professorship and family life -- Chapter 3: Aletta, woman in her own right -- Chapter 4: Early work and the Theory of Electrons -- Chapter 5: The new century: Prospect and retrospect -- Chapter 6: Nobel Prize and international recognition -- Chapter 7: Haarlem, Einstein, Ehrenfest, and Solvay -- Chapter 8: Quantum theory and the General Theory of Relativity -- Chapter 9: World War One -- Chapter 10: The Zuiderzee Commission -- Chapter 11: International cooperation in crisis -- Chapter 12: The final years: Travel and tributes -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index -- Family tree.
General note"This book is a revised and expanded edition of a Dutch-language biography of Lorentz by one of us (AJK) that appeared in 2019 (Kox 2019)"--Preface
General noteTranslated from Dutch.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 263-275) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2020952678
ISBN0198870507 (hardback)
ISBN9780198870500 (hardback)

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