Philipp Lenard
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German physicist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard was a Hungarian-born German physicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905 for his work on cathode rays and the discovery of many of their properties. One of his most important contributions was the experimental realization of the photoelectric effect. He discovered that the energy of the electrons ejected from a cathode depends only on the wavelength, and not the intensity, of the incident light.
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