Lenard is remembered as a strong German nationalist who despised English physics, which he considered as having stolen their ideas from Germany. During the Nazi regime, he was the outspoken proponent of the idea that Germany should rely on "Deutsche Physik" ("Aryan physics") and ignore the (in his opinion) fallacious and perhaps deliberately misleading ideas of "Jewish physics", by which he meant chiefly the theories of Albert Einstein, including "the Jewish fraud" of relativity. An advisor to Adolf Hitler, Lenard became Chief of Aryan Physics under the Nazis. He was expelled from his post at the University of Heidelberg by Allied occupation forces in 1945.
Lenard made the interesting discovery that the velocity of electrons emitted during this process was affected by the wavelength of the incident light, and that an increase in that light's intensity increased the number of electrons emitted, but not their speed.
PhilippEduardAntonvonLenard, (Hungarian: Lénárd Fülöp) (June 7, 1862–May 20, 1947) was a physicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905 for his research on cathode rays and the discovery of many of their properties.
PhilippLenard was born in Bratislava (then as Pressburg part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) on July 7, 1862, and he attended a Hungarian-language secondary school.
Lenard is remembered as a strong nationalist who despised English physics, which he considered as having stolen their ideas from Germany.
During the Nazi regime, he was the outspoken proponent of the idea that Germany should rely on "Deutsche Physik" ("Aryan physics") and ignore the (in his opinion) fallacious and perhaps deliberately misleading ideas of "Jewish physics", by which he meant chiefly the theories of Albert Einstein, including "the Jewish fraud" of relativity.
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