Meaning & use
Zeeman
Surname of Pieter Zeeman, the Dutch physicist who discovered the splitting of spectral lines in a magnetic field.
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Zeeman shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1902 for his discovery of the effect that bears his name.
Astronomers use the Zeeman effect to measure magnetic fields on the surface of distant stars.
A note on using this word
Zeeman is best known through the Zeeman effect, a key discovery in early twentieth-century physics linking magnetism and light.
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