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Definition of Philipp Lenard
1. Noun. German physicist who studied cathode rays (1862-1947).
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Literary usage of Philipp Lenard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
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 ..."