Philipp Lenard
German physicist
Died when: 84 years 347 days (1019 months)Star Sign: Gemini
Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard (German pronunciation: ['f?l?p 'le?na?t];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".
