name: Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
birth_date: 1853-07-18 00:00:00
death_date: 1928-02-04 00:00:00
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about: Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect. Lorentz also derived the transformation equations, which Albert Einstein interpreted as describing the true nature of space and time.