Philipp Lenard

Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard was a German physicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905 for his research on cathode rays and the discovery of many of their properties. He was a nationalist and antiSemite as an active proponent of the Nazi ideology, he had supported Adolf Hitler in the 1920s and was an important role model for the Deutsche Physik movement during the Nazi period.

Philipp Lenard was born in Pressburg , onJune 1862. The Lenard family had originally come from Tyrol in the 17th century, and Lenards parents were Germanspeakers. His father, Philipp von Lenardis , was a winemerchant in Pressburg. His mother was Antonie Baumann . The young Lenard studied at the Pozsonyi Kirlyi Katolikus Fgymnasium and as he writes it in his autobiography, this made a big impression on him . In 1880 he studied physics and chemistry in Vienna and in Budapest. In 1882 Lenard left Budapest and returned to Pressburg, but in 1883 moved to Heidelberg after his tender for an assistants position in the University of Budapest was refused. In Heidelberg he studied under the illustrious Robert Bunsen, interrupted by one semester in Berlin with Hermann von Helmholtz, and obtained his doctoral degree in 1886. In 1887 he worked again in Budapest under Lornd Etvs as a demonstrator. After posts at Aachen, Bonn, Breslau, Heidelberg , and Kiel , he returned finally to the University

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