Ludvig Lorenz

Ludvig Valentin Lorenz.

Ludvig Valentin Lorenz (born January 18, 1829 in Helsingør , † June 9, 1891 in Frederiksberg ) was a Danish physicist. The Lorenz-Mie theory and the Lorenz calibration are named after him. Independently of Maxwell , he gave the equations for electromagnetic waves and light .

He is to be distinguished from Hendrik Lorentz (* July 18, 1853 in Arnheim , † February 4, 1928 in Haarlem ), one of the pioneers of the theory of relativity, from whom also important contributions to electrodynamics come. The Lorenz calibration was for a long time attributed to Hendrik Lorentz. The similarity of names probably played a role in the mix-up.

Works

• Ludvig V. Lorenz: The theory of light I. In: Ann. Phys.Chem. 18, 1863, pp. 111-145 ( online )
• Ludvig V. Lorenz: About the identity of the oscillations of light with the electrical currents. In: Poggendorffs Annalen der Physik. 131, 1867, pp. 243-263 ( online ).
• Ludvig Lorenz: Lysbevaegelsen i og uden for en af ​​plane Lysbolger belyst Kugle. In: Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter. 6. Raekke, 6. Bind, 1890, 1, pp. 1-62.
• Ludvig Lorenz: Sur la lumière réfléchie et réfractée par une sphère (surface) transparente. In: Œuvres scientifiques de L. Lorenz, revues et annotées par H. Valentiner. Tome Premier, Libraire Lehmann & Stage, Copenhagen, 1898, pp. 403-529.

literature

• H. Kragh: Ludvig Lorenz and nineteenth century optical theory: the work of a great Danish scientist . In: Appl. Opt. 30, 1991. pp. 4688-4695.
• NA Logan: Survey of some early studies of the scattering of plane waves by a sphere. In: Proceedings of the IEEE. 53, 1965, pp. 773-785.
• John David Jackson, Lev Borisovich Okun: Historical roots of gauge invariance In: Rev. Mod. Phys. 73 2001, pp. 663-680