Lorentz

Lorentz is a name derived from the Roman surname, Laurentius, which mean "from Laurentum". It is the German form of Laurence.

Lorentz may refer to:

Literature

• Friedrich Lorentz, author of works on the Pomeranian language
• Pare Lorentz (1905–1992), American author and film director

Physics

• Hendrik Lorentz (1853–1928), Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize winner, or his work:
  • Lorentz factor, Doppler effect
  • 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, though Einstein re-derived the transform in a different and much more elegant way
  • 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
  • Lorentz scalar, a scalar which is invariant under a Lorentz transformation
  • Lorentz space
• Lorentz Institute, Instituut-Lorentz in Dutch, was established in 1921 and is the oldest institute for theoretical physics in The Netherlands

Other fields

• Lorentz (crater), crater on the Moon
• Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz (1871–1944), Dutch explorer and diplomat
• Lorentz National Park, a national park in Indonesian New Guinea, named for Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz
• Lorentz Reige (born 1990), Swedish dancer
• Dominique Lorentz, French investigative journalist who has written books on the stakes and reality of nuclear proliferation, as well as a film documentary, La République Atomique ("The Atomic Republic"), which related terrorist acts in France in the 1980s to the nuclear program of Iran
• Jim Lorentz (born 1947), retired Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played 10 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Boston Bruins, St
• Lore Lorentz (1920–1994), German cabaret artist/standup comedian
• Lorentz Aspen (born 1978), Norwegian heavy metal pianist and keyboardist
• Lorentz Dietrichson (1834–1917), Norwegian poet and historian of art and literature
• Lorentz Eichstadt (1596–1660), German mathematician and astronomer. The lunar crater Eichstadt is named after him
• Lorentz Harboe Ree (1888–1962), Norwegian architect
• Lorentz Lange (1783–1860), Norwegian judge and politician
• Lorentz Reitan (born 1946), Norwegian musicologist
• Max Lorentz (born 1962), Swedish musician, songwriter and producer
• Stanisław Lorentz (1899–1991), Polish scholar of music and history of art. Lorentz conducted an intensive correspondence with Lithuanian art conservation specialist Vladas Drėma. The letters were published in 1998
• H. A. Lorentz (disambiguation)
• Lorentz Medal, a prize awarded every four years by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Lorentz River, located in Western New Guinea, Indonesia
• Lorentz catfish, a species of fish in the Ariidae family, and the only member of the genus Tetranesodon. It is endemic to West Papua in Indonesia
• Lorentz, West Virginia

See also

• Laurentius (disambiguation)
• Lorenz (disambiguation), spelled without the 't'