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• Friedrich Lorentz, author of works on the Pomeranian language
  Pomeranian language
  
  Pomeranian is a group of Lechitic languages dialects which were spoken in the Middle Ages on the territory of Pomerania. They are most closely related to Polabian language dialects, which they bordered in the west, and to Polish language dialects, which they bordered in the south....
  
• Pare Lorentz
  Pare Lorentz
  
  Pare Lorentz was an United States filmmaker. Born Leonard MacTaggart Lorentz in Clarksburg, West Virginia, he was educated at Wesleyan College and the University of West Virginia....
   (1905-1992), American author and film director

• Hendrik Lorentz
  Hendrik Lorentz
  
  Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was a Netherlands physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect....
   (1853–1928), Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize winner
• Lorentz factor
  Lorentz factor
  
  The Lorentz factor or Lorentz term appears in several equations in special relativity, including time dilation, length contraction, and the relativistic mass formula....
  , Doppler effect
• Lorentz Force
  Lorentz force
  
  In physics, the Hendrik Lorentz force is the force on a point charge due to electromagnetic fields. It is given by the following equation in terms of the electric field and magnetic fields:...
  , the force exerted on a charged particle in an electromagnetic field
• Lorentz transformation
  Lorentz transformation
  
  In physics, the Lorentz transformation converts between two different observers' measurements of space and time, where one observer is in constant motion with respect to the other....
  , the formula that provides the mathematical backbone for Einstein
  Albert Einstein
  
  Albert Einstein was a Germany-born theoretical physics. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass?energy equivalence, expressed by the equation E = mc2....
  's theory of special relativity
  Special relativity
  
  Special relativity is the physical theory of measurement in inertial frames of reference proposed in 1905 by Albert Einstein in the paper "Annus Mirabilis Papers#Special relativity"....
  .
• The Lorentz group
  Lorentz group
  
  In physics , the Lorentz group is the group of all Lorentz transformations of Minkowski spacetime, the classical field theory setting for all physics....
  , the group containting all Lorentz transformations
• Lorentz-Cauchy Distribution
  Cauchy distribution
  
  The Cauchy?Lorentz distribution, named after Augustin Cauchy and Hendrik Lorentz,  is a continuous probability distribution. As a probability distribution, it is known as the Cauchy distribution, while among physicists, it is known as a Lorentz distribution, or a Lorentz function or the Breit?Wigner dis...
  , a distribution used in fitting peaks in a spectrum

• Lorentz (crater)
  Lorentz (crater)
  
  Lorentz is a huge Moon Impact crater that lies just beyond the northwest limb of the Moon, in a region that is brought into sight of the Earth during favorable librations....
  , crater on the Moon
• Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz
  Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz
  
  Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz was a Dutch explorer in New Guinea and diplomat in South Africa.Lorentz, son of a tobacco grower in East Java who had returned to the Netherlands, studied law and biology at Utrecht University....
   (1871-1944), Dutch explorer and diplomat
• Lorentz National Park
  Lorentz National Park
  
  Lorentz National Park is located in the Indonesian province of Papua , formerly known as Irian Jaya . With an area of 25,056 km? , it is the largest national park in South-East Asia....
  , a national park in Indonesia
  Indonesia
  
  The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
  n New Guinea
  New Guinea
  
  New Guinea, located just north of Australia, is the List of islands by area, having become separated from the Australian mainland when the area now known as the Torres Strait flooded after the last glacial period....
  , named for Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz
• Lorentz Reige
  Lorentz Reige
  
  Lorentz Reige is a famous ballroom dancer in Sweden. He was born in Sweden and in spite of his young age he has performed and competed in several countries outside Sweden....
   (b. 1990), Swedish dancer

See also

• Laurentius
  Laurentius
  
  Laurentius is a latin surname and means man from Laurentum .Laurentius may refer to:In Catholicism:* Antipope Laurentius, antipope of the Roman Catholic Church...
  
• Lorenz
  Lorenz
  
  Lorenz is a originally german name derived from the Roman surname, Laurentius, which mean "from Laurentum".Lorenz may refer to:Law Firm...
  , disambiguation page, spelled without the 't'