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Feb 13, 2015 · Lenard had refused to lower the flag of his institute at Heidelberg as a mark of respect for the murdered minister, and as a result he had been dragged from his laboratory by an angry mob of...
May 29, 2015 · Philipp Lenard (1862-1947) was a German experimental physicist who advanced the study of X-ray tubes, the photoelectric effect and atomic theory. His results led him to propose (correctly) that...
Apr 14, 2015 · Hillman has done an extraordinary research effort to uncover little known facts about the personal persecution Einstein suffered (especially by Philip Lenard, but also by the Nazi regime in search of targets) and he clarifies why it took so long for Einstein to get his Nobel.
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Mar 3, 2017 · Nobel Prize-winner Philipp Lenard, who eventually became a Nazi, fought hard behind the scenes to make sure Einstein wouldn't win a Nobel himself. Ultimately the Nobel committee decided not to...
Apr 14, 2015 · That clash explains why Albert Einstein ended up at Princeton and why his self-appointed nemesis, Philipp Lenard, ended his years stripped of academic rank but worshipping Adolf Hitler to the end.
Apr 14, 2015 · Philipp Lenard, a rival and doubter of Einstein, rose to power in Nazi Germany as Hitler's science advisor. Their story is told dramatically, with Morey capturing the essence of the battle between pacifism and the Nazi regime.
Philipp Lenard had been an assistant of Hertz and built on his work on the photoelectric effect. He discovered that the total charge of electrons emitted, but not their velocity, depended on the intensity of light shone on to the metallic surface.
