Hendrik Antoon Lorentz

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (July 18, 1853 Arnhem – February 4 1928 Haarlem) was a Dutch physicist. At the early age of 22, he obtained his doctor’s degree and only three years later he was appointed to the chair of Theoretical Physics at Leyden, newly created for him.

In his doctor’s thesis, he treated the reflection and refraction phenomena of light from this standpoint which was then quite new. His fundamental work in the fields of optiocs and electricity has revolutionized contemporary conceptions of the nature of matter.