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Zeeman Pieter's Life and Contribution to The World of Science (1865-1943)

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Zeeman Pieter is a Dutch physicist   who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with Hendrik   Lorentz in 1902 for the discovery of the Zeeman effect. Zeeman Pieter Childhood and youth He   was born on   May 25,   1865,   in Zonnemaire, a small town on the island of Schouwen -Duiveland, in the Netherlands.   Pieter was the son of Rev Catharines Forandinus Zeeman, a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, and his wife, Willemina Worst.   He   became interested in physics at an early age.   When Zeeman was a student at the high school in Zierikzee, the aurora borealis happened to be visible in the Netherlands in 1883. Later in this article, I will give a brief description of the aurora and Zeeman effect.  He prepared a description and drawing of the phenomenon and submitted it to Nature, and they published it with the editor's praise. After finishing high school in 1883, Zeeman went to Delft for supplementary education in classical languages, then a requirement for admission to the univer