= Pieter Zeeman
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= P. Zeeman
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A <physicist>.https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show.php?id=7221[Biographical identity and professional specialization]{ref}
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The <Zeeman effect> connects a laboratory <magnetic field> to the frequencies and <wave polarization> of <light> emitted by <chemical atoms>. Its experimental history makes the viewing direction and spectral resolving power essential to the inference.
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