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ZEEMAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dutch physicist honored for his research on the influence of magnetism on radiation which showed that light is radiated by the motion of charged particles in an atom (1865-1943)
Synonyms:
Pieter Zeeman; Zeeman
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Instance hypernyms:
physicist (a scientist trained in physics)