Lorentz Committee

Lorentz s personal notes. State Archives North-Holland, Haarlem. Archives of H.A. Lorentz, 364. Files on Lorentz Committee, 166. F.M. Jaeger to H.A. Lorentz, October 28, 1917. Ibid., Files on Subcommittee L. Minerals and Chemical Industry 167. 

First year report of the Lorentz Committee in Mededeelingen betreffende de Wetenschappelijke Commissie van Advies en Onderzoek in het Belong van de Volkswelvaart en Weerbaarheid, 4(1919). 

September 11, 1920. State Archives North-Holland, Lorentz Committee, 166. 

The 7th Solvay Conference in Physics was held in 1933, and was entitled the Structure and Properties of Atomic Nuclei. 41 It was chaired by Langevin who, after the death of Lorentz (4 February 1928), had become President of the Scientific Committee. It took place at a time when the field had recently undergone extremely rapid developments. The conference was really marking the beginning of modern nuclear physics. 

DTA = differential thermal analysis FCC = face centered cubic FWHM = full width at half maximum ICDD = international center for diffraction data JCPDS = joint committee on powder diffraction standards EP = Lorentz and polarization PO = Preferred orientation. PT = parallel tempering PXRD = powder X-ray diffraction SA = simulated annealing SWE = short-wavelength-limit TGA = thermogravametric analysis XRPD = X-ray powder diffraction XRD = X-ray diffraction ... 

In order to address this question, in 1918 a committee was installed to investigate this problem. The committee was chaired by Nobel Prize winner H. A. Lorentz. Nobody anticipated that it would take this committee eight years to resolve the... 

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