ZEEMAN PIETER: (1865-1943) Dutch Physicist. Awarded with the Nobel Prize in 1902 for his ...

ZEEMAN PIETER: (1865-1943) Dutch Physicist. Awarded with the Nobel Prize in 1902 for his discovery of the Zeeman effect. An excellent content lengthy A.L.S., `P. Zeeman´, four pages, 8vo, Amsterdam, 30th April 1933, on his personal printed stationery, to Samuel Goudsmit, in Dutch. Zeeman thanks his colleague and correspondent at the Michigan University for sending him a copy of his book Atomic Energy States, and referring to the Zeeman effect named after him, states in part `The book will be very useful, much more than the ''Tables Annueles''. Subsequent editions of yours and Baher´s book will prove particularly indispensable since the Tables Annueles will be quite reduced. The Stark and Zeeman effects and the Ramman spectra will have to be left out due to the lack of funds…´ A very interesting scientific content letter, Zeeman saying `I am already taking some pleasure in a mass spectrograph which I installed following Thomson´s parabola method… I can indeed prove through experimentation ... Keesom the percentage H1 H2 had increased by distilled evaporation and correction…´ Further again, Zeeman refers to great scientific figures, saying in part `After her stay with Madame Curie, Miss Lub is back to Amsterdam. De Bruin is now custodian. Francis Perrin recently paid us a visit. Holweck was going to come too but I had to leave for Algiers to do gravity measurements for a government commission. We are now waiting for Geiger…´ A letter of very interesting content. Two extremely small staple holes to the upper left corner, otherwise VG

Marie Curie (1867-1934) French Physicist and Chemist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1903 (with her husband, Pierre Curie), and Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry, 1911. The first person to be honoured with two Nobel prizes. Francis Perrin (1901-1992) French Physicist. Son of Nobel prize-winning physicist Jean Perrin. Johannes Wilhelm Geiger (1882-1945) German Physicist. Inventor of the Geiger counter and for the Geiger-Marsden experiment which discovered the atomic nucleus.