Zeeman
Proper noun
Meaning
Zeeman
A surname.
Examples
How can one look happy when he is thinking about the anomalous Zeeman effect?
A colleague who met me strolling rather aimlessly in the beautiful streets of Copenhagen said to me in a friendly manner, "You look very unhappy”; whereupon I answered fiercely, "How can one look happy when he is thinking about the anomalous Zeeman effect?”.
In both his 1897 paper citation and his Nobel acceptance speech, citation Zeeman made reference to Faraday's work.
Observations using the Zeeman effect show that prototypical sunspots come in pairs with opposite magnetic polarity.
These two successes, and the continuing failure of the Bohr-Sommerfeld model to explain the outstanding problem of the anomalous Zeeman effect, led Heisenberg to use the virtual oscillator model to try to calculate spectral frequencies.