Ludvig Lorenz

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Not to be confused with Hendrik Lorentz or Edward Norton Lorenz.

Ludvig Lorenz

Born	(1829-01-18)January 18, 1829 Helsingør, Denmark
Died	June 9, 1891(1891-06-09) (aged 62)
Nationality	Danish
Fields	Physicist
Known for	Wiedemann–Franz–Lorenz law Lorentz–Lorenz equation Lorenz gauge condition Lorenz–Mie theory

Ludvig Valentin Lorenz (January 18, 1829 – June 9, 1891) was a Danish mathematician and physicist. He developed mathematical formulae to describe phenomena such as the relation between the refraction of light and the density of a pure transparent substance, and the relation between a metal's electrical and thermal conductivity and temperature (Wiedemann–Franz–Lorenz law).

Lorenz was born in Helsingør and studied at the Technical University in Copenhagen. He became professor at the Military Academy in Copenhagen 1876. From 1887, his research was funded by the Carlsberg Foundation. He investigated the mathematical description for light propagation through a single homogeneous medium and described the passage of light between different media. The formula for the mathematical relationship between the refractive index and the density of a medium was published by Lorenz in 1869 and by Hendrik Lorentz (who discovered it independently) in 1870 and is therefore called the Lorentz–Lorenz equation. Using his electromagnetic theory of light he stated what is known as the Lorenz gauge condition, and was able to derive a correct value for the velocity of light. He also developed a theory of light scattering, publishing it in Danish in 1890 and in French in his Collected Works, published in 1898. It was later independently rediscovered by Gustav Mie in 1908, so it is sometimes referred to as Lorenz–Mie theory. Additionally, Lorenz laid the foundations for ellipsometry by using Fresnel's theory of refraction to discover that light reflected by a thin transition layer between two media becomes elliptically polarized.^[1]

References

↑ Zangwill, Andrew (2012). Modern Electrodynamics. Cambridge. pp. 789–790. ISBN 978-0-521-89697-0 Check |isbn= value (help).

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Name	Lorenz, Ludvig Valentin
Alternative names
Short description	Danish mathematician and physicist
Date of birth	January 18, 1829
Place of birth	Helsingør
Date of death	June 9, 1891
Place of death

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