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Professor Ralph de Laer Kronig presents the Lorentz Medal to Freeman Dyson at a 1966 ceremony in Amsterdam. The medal, awarded every four years by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences for outstanding contributions to  theoretical physics, is named for the Dutch physicist Dr. Hendrik Lorentz.  Looking on are Professor Christian Moller of Denmark and Geertruida de Haas-Lorentz,  the daughter of Hendrik Lorentz and a distinguished physicist in her own right.
Professor Ralph de Laer Kronig presents the Lorentz Medal to Freeman Dyson at a 1966 ceremony in Amsterdam. The medal, awarded every four years by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences for outstanding contributions to theoretical physics, is named for the Dutch physicist Dr. Hendrik Lorentz. Looking on are Professor Christian Moller of Denmark and Geertruida de Haas-Lorentz, the daughter of Hendrik Lorentz and a distinguished physicist in her own right.
(Courtesy of Freeman Dyson)

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