Pieter Zeeman Quotes

• It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The idea came to me during an investigation of the effect discovered by Kerr on light reflected by magnetic mirrors.

  Pieter Zeeman

  Mirrors, Light, Ideas

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• The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour.

  Pieter Zeeman

  Sodium, Vapour, Rotation

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• The magnetic cleavage of the spectral lines is dependent on the size of the charge of the electron, or, more accurately, on the ratio between the mass and the charge of the electron.

  Pieter Zeeman

  Lines, Ratios, Size

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• Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets.

  Pieter Zeeman

  Nature, Exception To The Rule, Giving

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• I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track.

  Pieter Zeeman

  Work, Past, Track

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• According to well-known electrodynamic laws, an electron moving in a magnetic field is acted upon by a force which runs perpendicular to the direction of motion of the electron and to the direction of the magnetic field, and whose magnitude is easily determined.

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  Correr, Moverse, Derecho

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• On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains a single moving electron.

  Pieter Zeeman

  Moving On, Molecules, Moved On

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• Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be measured out at any time.

  Pieter Zeeman

  Photography, Records, Made

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