A quantitative measure of the photoelectric effect came in 1902, with work by Philipp Lenard (a former assistant to Hertz.) It was clear that light had electrical properties, but what was going on ...

Lenard fought hard to ensure that Einstein, the “pure-blooded Jew,” would not win a Nobel Prize; in fact, the decision by the Nobel Committee not to award any physics prize in 1921 was due, at ...

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 ...

Philipp Lenard, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, was an early supporter of the Nazi Party. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works ...

In 1933, the Nobel Prize winner Philipp Lenard claimed that “it had become dark in physics”; according to him, German science had been destroyed by “the massive infiltration of the Jews into ...