We proudly announce the latest EPS Historic Site in the Netherlands: the former Zeeman laboratory in Amsterdam. On 25th May, Pieter Zeeman's birthday, the plaque on the building was unveiled by EPS Vice-President Petra Rudolf. The Zeeman laboratory was opened in 1923 at Plantage Muidergracht 4 in Amsterdam, it was specially equipped for experiments that were carried out in the group of Nobel Prize Laureate Pieter Zeeman. Pieter Zeeman was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1902 together with Hendrik Lorentz. Today the building is inhabited, the laboratory has been converted into several apartments. The unveiling was actually planned in 2021 in the context of 100 years of Netherlands’ Physical Society, but had to be postponed until 2022 due to Covid-19. The other EPS Historic Sites in the Netherlands are Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory in Leiden, the NatLab in Eindhoven and Sonnenborgh in Utrecht.

Members of the Van der Waals-Zeeman laboratory of the University of Amsterdam made this short movie about the work of Pieter Zeeman and their own work.

photos: NNV

More about the EPS Historic Sites programme

• The Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory and the Instituut-Lorentz
• The Philips Nat Lab
  
• The Sonnenborgh Museum and Observatory
• List of inaugurated EPS Historic Sites