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October 9th History

1943: Pieter Zeeman died in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He and Hendrik Lorentz shared the 1902 Nobel Prize for Physics for their discovery of the effect of magnetism on electromagnetic radiation.
Source: Physics Infomall.