When was Pieter Zeeman born?
25 May 1865
10 October 1865
15 June 1865
20 April 1865
Answer
Pieter Zeeman was born on May 25, 1865. He was a Dutch physicist who, along with Hendrik Lorentz, discovered the Zeeman effect, which is the splitting of spectral lines in the presence of a magnetic field. This discovery earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1902. Zeeman's work was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics and the understanding of the structure of atoms.
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