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Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard (German pronunciation: [ˈfɪlɪp ˈleːnaʁt] ⓘ; Hungarian: Lénárd Fülöp Eduárd Antal; 7 June 1862 – 20 May 1947) was a Hungarian-German physicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1905 for his work on cathode rays and the discovery of many of their properties.
Philipp Lenard was a German physicist and recipient of the 1905 Nobel Prize for Physics for his research on cathode rays and the discovery of many of their properties. His results had important implications for the development of electronics and nuclear physics.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Lenard was an experimentalist of genius, but more doubtful as a theorist. Some of his discoveries were great ones and others were very important, but he claimed for them more than their true value.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1905. Born: 7 June 1862, Pressburg, Hungary (now Bratislava, Slovakia) Died: 20 May 1947, Messelhausen, Germany. Affiliation at the time of the award: Kiel University, Kiel, Germany. Prize motivation: “for his work on cathode rays”. Prize share: 1/1.
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)...
May 23, 2018 · The future Nobel winner was born Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard on June 7, 1862, in Pressburg, the Slovakian city that later became Bratislava. His family was of Austrian heritage, from the Tyrol, and lived comfortably from the income of his father's business as a wine merchant.
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Philipp Lenard. For research of cathode rays and photo-electricity. Philipp Lenard was born in 1862, Bratislava, in Austria-Hungary (today Slovakia). He studied physics successively at Budapest, Vienna, Berlin and Heidelberg, and received his Ph.D. at Heidelberg in 1886.