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The Nobel Prize in Physics
1905

Philip Lenard
1862 - 1947

Germany

Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

"In recognition for his work on cathode rays."
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Lenard is chiefly known for his pioneering work on cathode rays. Herz showed in 1892 thta these rays could pass through thin metal foil. Lenard, Hertz's assistant, made a cathode-ray tube with a 'Lenard window' through which he obtained outside the tube a beam of cathod rays.

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