On This Day - May 25 : Pieter Zeeman was born

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He studied the influence of magnetism on a source of light, and found that each of the lines in the light spectrum split into several other lines. This effect, known as the “Zeeman Effect”, has important applications such as in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR).

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