How to Pronounce Philipp Lenard
#50
Most Popular
Boost
Jun 07, 1862 Bratislava, Bratislava Region, Slovakia Died on 20 May 1947 (aged 84)
German physicist
GeminiPhilipp Lenard - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
Philipp Lenard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Family, Facts, Age, Net Worth, Biography and More in FamedBorn.com
About Philipp Lenard
- Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard (Hungarian: Lénárd Fülöp Eduárd Antal) (7 June 1862 – 20 May 1947) was a Hungarian-born German physicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905 for his work on cathode rays and the discovery of many of their properties.
- One of his most important contributions was the experimental realization of the photoelectric effect.
- He discovered that the energy (speed) of the electrons ejected from a cathode depends only on the wavelength, and not the intensity of, the incident light. Lenard was a nationalist and anti-Semite; as an active proponent of the Nazi ideology, he supported Adolf Hitler in the 1920s and was an important role model for the "Deutsche Physik" movement during the Nazi period.
- Notably, he labeled Albert Einstein's contributions to science as "Jewish physics".
