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Philipp Lenard was born at Pozsony (Pressburg) in Hungary on June 7, 1862. In the town of his birth he was fortunate in finding an excellent teacher of physics, Virgil Klatt, in conjunction with whom he later carried out his first work on phosphorescence. As a young man he studied physics at the Universities of Budapest, Vienna, Berlin and Heidelberg under, among other famous teachers, Bunsen, Helmholtz, Konigsberger and Quincke, obtaining a thorough all-round knowledge of theoretical as well as experimental physics. His first senior appointment was, in fact, as professor of theoretical physics in Heidelberg in 1896; two years later he was made professor of experimental physics at Kiel, where he remained until recalled to Heidelberg in 1907 to be Quincke's successor as professor of experimental physics. In 1909 he was made in addition director of the newly founded Radiologisches Institut, which was more or less amalgamated with the physics research laboratory of the University. He remained as professor at Heidelberg until his retirement in 1931. News has recently reached England of his death on May 20, 1947.
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DA C. ANDRADE, E. Prof. P. Lenard. Nature 160, 895–896 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160895a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/160895a0