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The Nobel Prize in Physics
1902

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Pieter Zeeman
1865 - 1943

Holland

Amsterdam University

"in recognition of the extraordinary service they rendered by their researches into the influence of magnetism upon radiation phenomena"
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Zeeman independently examined the spectrum of a sodium flame situated in a strong magnetic field using a concave Rowland grating field ten feet in radius, and found that the lines were indeed split by the field. The magnitude of the Zeeman effect proved that the electron was the radiator, not the atom, as Larmor had assumed.

 

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