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Noun: Zeeman  zee-mun or 'zey,maan
  1. Dutch physicist honoured 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)
    - Pieter Zeeman

Type of: physicist

Encyclopedia: Zeeman, Richard