Definition of Philipp lenard

1. Noun. German physicist who studied cathode rays (1862-1947).

Exact synonyms: Lenard
Generic synonyms: Physicist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Philipp Lenard

Philip Augustus
Philip Dormer Stanhope
Philip II
Philip II of Macedon
Philip II of Spain
Philip Marlowe
Philip Michael Ondaatje
Philip Milton Roth
Philip Roth
Philip V
Philip VI
Philip Warren Anderson
Philip of Valois
Philipino
Philipp.
Philipp Lenard
Philipp Melanchthon
Philipp Schwarzerd
Philippa
Philippe
Philippe's triangle
Philippi
Philippian
Philippians
Philippine
Philippine Islands
Philippine Sea
Philippine cedar
Philippine haemorrhagic fever
Philippine mahogany

Literary usage of Philipp lenard

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1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1896)
"... to shine when it was approached to the tube exactly as if it were struck with rays of sunlight or arc-light.3 The effects were thus 1 philipp lenard, ..."

2. The Nineteenth Century (1896)
"And finally, when the hand was placed between the tube and the fluorescent screen, the result was especially * philipp lenard, ' On Cathode Rays in Gases ..."

3. Popular Science Monthly (1906)
"The prize in physiology and medicine goes to Professor Robert Koch, that in physics to Professor philipp lenard, and that in chemistry to Professor Adolf ..."

4. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1897)
"His pupil, philipp lenard, now Prof. Lenard, of Aachen, took up the point. He fitted up a tube with a small window of aluminium foil opposite the kathode, ..."

5. Electric Waves: Being Researches on the Propagation of Electric Action with by Heinrich Hertz, Daniel Evan Jones (1893)
"For advice and help in seeing the book through the press, I am indebted to several friends; but most especially to Dr. philipp lenard, Privat-docent in the ..."

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