Plaque declaring the Zeeman Lab an EPS Historic Site
Plaque declaring the Zeeman Lab an EPS Historic Site The European Physical Society has declared the Zeeman Lab a Historic Site. On 25 May, the birthday of Pieter Zeeman (1865-1943), a commemorative plaque on the building was unveiled by former EPS president Petra Rudolf. This makes the Zeeman Lab the fourth EPS Historic Site in the Netherlands, after the Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory in Leiden, the NatLab in Eindhoven and Sonnenborgh in Utrecht. The EPS awards the Historic Site predicate to sites that have contributed in an extraordinary way to physics. The Zeeman Lab, on the Plantage Muidergracht 4 in Amsterdam, was opened in 1923 and dedicated to experiments performed by Nobel laureate Pieter Zeeman. Nowadays it serves as a residential building, the Lab being transformed into several apartments. The unveiling was originally planned for 2021, the 100th anniversary of the Netherlands' Physical Society (NNV), but due to corona was postponed until 2022.
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