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Philipp Lenard
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Philipp Lenard

Inventor · born June 7, 1862 · died 1947

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Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard was a Hungarian–German experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1905 for his work on cathode rays.

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  1. ~34Received the Rumford Medal1896
  2. ~34Received the Matteucci Medal1896
  3. ~43Received the Nobel Prize in Physics1905

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