title: Lorentz (disambiguation)
text: # Lorentz (disambiguation)
  
  Lorentz is a surname and a given name.
  
  Lorentz may also refer to:
  
  ## Things named for Hendrik Lorentz
  
  * Lorentz factor, Doppler effect
  * The Lorentz-Lorenz law, the law regarding the refractive index of a substance discovered independently by Hendrik Lorentz and Ludvig Lorenz
  * Lorentz force, the force exerted on a charged particle in an electromagnetic field
  * Lorentz transformation, the formula that provides the mathematical backbone for Einstein's theory of special relativity
  * The Lorentz group, the group containing all Lorentz transformations
  * Lorentz-Cauchy distribution, a distribution used in fitting peaks in a spectrum
  * Lorentz surface, a two-dimensional oriented smooth manifold with a conformal equivalence class of Lorentzian metrics. It is the analogue of a Riemann surface in indefinite signature
  * Lorentz curve (disambiguation), various meanings
  * Lorentz scalar, a scalar which is invariant under a Lorentz transformation
  * Lorentz Institute, Instituut-Lorentz in Dutch, was established in 1921 and is the oldest institute for theoretical physics in The Netherlands
  * List of things named after Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
  
  ## Places
  
  * Lorentz (crater), crater on the Moon
  * Lorentz National Park, a national park in Indonesian New Guinea, named for Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz
  * Lorentz River, located in Western New Guinea, Indonesia
  * Lorentz, West Virginia
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Lorentz Medal, a prize awarded every four years by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  * Lorentz space, in mathematics, a function space named after the American mathematician George G. Lorentz.
  * Lorentz catfish, a species of fish in the family Ariidae, the only member of the genus Tetranesodon, endemic to West Papua in Indonesia
  