Uniform title | Hendrik 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 note | Translated from Dutch. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-275) and index. |
Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
Genre/form | Electronic books. |
LCCN | 2020952678 |
ISBN | 0198870507 (hardback) |
ISBN | 9780198870500 (hardback) |