| title = The Top Ten Wrong Physicists
...thematics of ten highly respected, but wrong physicists. The top ten wrong physicists in chronological order: # Isaac Newton, English mathematician. Formul
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'''Hendrik Antoon Lorentz''' (18 July 1853 – 4 February 1928) was a Dutch [[physicist]] who shared the 1902 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] with [[Pieter
...ion]], "It may well be said that Lorentz was regarded by all [[theoretical physicists]] as the world's leading spirit, who completed what was left unfinished by
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...Berlin|Friedrich Wilhelms University]] in Berlin for a year of study with physicists [[Hermann von Helmholtz]] and [[Gustav Kirchhoff]] and mathematician [[Karl
...here are represented by {{math|''hν''}} and not simply by {{math|''ν''}}. Physicists now call these quanta photons, and a photon of frequency {{math|''ν''}} wil
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...the relative motion of matter in relation to the ether. And although most physicists had other views, Poincaré in 1900<ref group=A name=relation>Poincaré (1900a
...and we had said that nothing could constrain us to abandon it. Today some physicists want to adopt a new convention. It is not that they are constrained to do s
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...ing relativistic velocity transformations and recorded them in a letter to Dutch physicist [[Hendrik Lorentz]] (1853–1928) in 1905. Thus he obtained perfect
...or the "[[luminiferous aether]]"), could be synchronised. At the same time Dutch theorist [[Hendrik Lorentz]] was developing Maxwell's theory into a theory
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...t velocity relative to each other. The transformations are named after the Dutch [[physicist]] [[Hendrik Lorentz]].
Many physicists—including [[Woldemar Voigt]], [[George FitzGerald]], [[Joseph Larmor]], and
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