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Phillip Lenard (1862-1947) investigated the photoelectric effect (light causes metals to emit electrons) and cathode rays (the stream of electrodes emitted from the cathode in a vacuum tube). He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905.

In later life he became obsessed with the need to produce a purely "Aryan" physics free from the influence of Einstein and other Jewish physicists.

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Tags: physicist, photoelectric, vacuum tube

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