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PIETER ZEEMAN was born, the son of a clergyman, at Zonnemaire, Holland, on May 25, 1865. In 1885 he went to Leyden, where he became a pupil of H. A. Lorentz and Kamerlingh Onnes, and took his doctor's degree in 1893 with a thesis on measurements of Kerr's magneto-optical phenomenon. He held various positions in the physics, department of the University of Leyden between 1890 and about 1900. In that year he was appointed professor of physics in the University of Amsterdam, where he spent the rest of his life.
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RICHARDSON, O. Prof. Pieter Zeeman, For.Mem.R.S. Nature 153, 158–159 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153158a0
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