biography
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Lenard, Philipp (Eduard Anton)
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pronunciation:
[laynah(r)t]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1862–1947)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Pressburg, Hungary (now Bratislava in the Slovak Republic). He was professor of physics at the universities of Wrocław, Poland (formerly Breslau, Prussia), Aachen, Heidelberg, and Kiel, before returning to Heidelberg (1907–31). His main research concerned the properties of cathode rays, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905. |
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