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Lorentz is a surname and a given name.

Contents

• Things named for Hendrik Lorentz
• Places
• Other uses
• See also

Lorentz may also refer to:

Things named for Hendrik Lorentz

• Lorentz factor, Doppler effect
• The Lorentz-Lorenz law, the law regarding the refractive index of a substance discovered independently by Hendrik Lorentz and Ludvig Lorenz
• Lorentz force, the force exerted on a charged particle in an electromagnetic field
• Lorentz transformation, the formula that provides the mathematical backbone for Einstein's theory of special relativity
• The Lorentz group, the group containing all Lorentz transformations
• Lorentz-Cauchy distribution, a distribution used in fitting peaks in a spectrum
• Lorentz surface, a two-dimensional oriented smooth manifold with a conformal equivalence class of Lorentzian metrics. It is the analogue of a Riemann surface in indefinite signature
• Lorentz curve (disambiguation), various meanings
• Lorentz scalar, a scalar which is invariant under a Lorentz transformation
• Lorentz Institute, Instituut-Lorentz in Dutch, was established in 1921 and is the oldest institute for theoretical physics in The Netherlands

Places

• Lorentz (crater), crater on the Moon
• Lorentz National Park, a national park in Indonesian New Guinea, named for Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz
• Lorentz River, located in Western New Guinea, Indonesia
• Lorentz, West Virginia

Other uses

• Lorentz Medal, a prize awarded every four years by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Lorentz space, in mathematics, a function space named after the American mathematician George G. Lorentz.
• Lorentz catfish, a species of fish in the family Ariidae, the only member of the genus Tetranesodon, endemic to West Papua in Indonesia

See also

• Lorenz (disambiguation)

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