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Zee·man  (zmän), Pieter 1865-1943.
Dutch physicist. He shared a 1902 Nobel Prize for researching the influence of magnetism on radiation.
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Noun1.Zeeman - Dutch physicist honored for his research on the influence of magnetism on radiation which showed that light is radiated by the motion of charged particles in an atom (1865-1943)


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Editors Berdyugina (astronomy, ETH Zurich), Nagendra (astrophysics, Indian Institute of Astrophysics) and Ramelli (astrophysics, Istituto Ricerche Solari Locano) compile papers that discuss such topics as the quantum theory of polarized light scattering in the presence of magnetic and electrical fields, quantum aspects of the Second Solar Spectrum and the use of Zeeman and Hanle effects to diagnose the fine structure of solar magnetic fields.
Using the high-sensitivity NARVAL spectropolarimeter installed at the Bernard-Lyot telescope at the Pic du Midi Observatory in France, a team of astronomers detected the effect of a magnetic field (known as the Zeeman effect) in the light emitted by Vega.
Abraham, & Shaw, 1990; Thelen & Smith, 1994), self-organization (Maturana & Varela, 1992), theory of nonequilibrium phase transition (Haken, 1984, 1987), neural nets (Levine, 1991, 1995; Levine, Leven, & Prueitt, 1992), fractals (Lauwerier, 1991; Mandelbrot, 1982), catastrophe theory (Arnold, 1986; Thorn, 1972/1975; Zeeman, 1977), and theory of dissipative structures (Prigogine, 1980, 1997; Prigogine & Stengers, 1984).
 
 
 
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