Background
She was the eldest daughter of the physicist H. A. Lorentz and Aletta Catharina Kaiser.
She was the eldest daughter of the physicist H. A. Lorentz and Aletta Catharina Kaiser.
Geertruida Lorentz studied physics at the University of Leiden under her father, and earned her doctor"s degree in 1912 on a thesis entitled "Over de theorie van de Brown"schen beweging en daarmede verwante verschijnselen" (On the theory of Brownian motion and related phenomena).
Consequently she is considered to be the first female in electrical noise theory. H. A. H. A. Doctorate. A.