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In consequence of my measurements of Kerr's magnetooptical phenomena, the thought occurred to me whether the period of the light emitted by a flame might be altered when the flame was acted upon by magnetic force. It has turned out that such an action really occurs.
Pieter Zeeman
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Born:
May 25, 1865
Died:
October 9, 1943
(aged 78)
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Pieter Zeeman was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for his discovery of the Zeeman effect.
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