biography
pronunciation:
[shtah(r)k]
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| (1874–1957)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Schickenhof, SE Germany. He studied at Munich, and became professor at Griefswald and Würzburg. In 1913 he discovered the effect, named after him, concerning the splitting of spectrum lines by subjecting light-emitting atoms to a strong electric field. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1919. A supporter of Hitler, in 1947 he was sentenced to four years in a labour camp by a denazification group. |
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