Philipp Lenard

Also known as Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard, Philipp von Lenard

German physicist (1862-1947)

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Philipp Lenard was a German physicist who conducted important research on cathode rays and the photoelectric effect during the late 1800s and early 1900s, work that contributed to the development of modern physics. His discoveries helped scientists understand the nature of light and electrons, though his scientific legacy became complicated by his later support for Nazi ideology.

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Born: 1862
Died: 1947
Works: 21

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Slovakia
Active from: 1942-09-09

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U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation
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SCANPY: large-scale single-cell gene expression data analysis
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Molecular mechanisms of cell death: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2018
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An Integrated Genomic Analysis of Human Glioblastoma Multiforme
· 2008 · cited 4,945x
2021 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease
· 2021 · cited 4,832x

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Commons category: Philipp Lenard
date of birth: 1862-06-07
date of death: 1947-05-20
birth name: Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard
name in native language: Philipp Lenard
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Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard ( German: [ˈfɪlɪp ˈleːnaʁt] ; 7 June 1862 – 20 May 1947) was a Hungarian–German experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1905 for his work on cathode rays. This work led to his experimental realization of the photoelectric effect, discovering that the energy (speed) of the electrons ejected from a cathode depends only on the frequency and not the intensity of light.

As an active proponent of the Nazi ideology, Lenard supported Adolf Hitler in the 1920s and was an important role model for the Deutsche Physik movement during the Nazi period. Notably, he labeled Albert Einstein's contributions to theoretical physics as "Jewish physics."