1. Felix Ehrenhaft was an Austrian physicist who contributed to atomic physics, to the measurement of electrical charges and to the optical properties of metal colloids.
11 Facts About Felix Ehrenhaft
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Felix Ehrenhaft was known for his maverick and controversial style.
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Felix Ehrenhaft's iconoclasm was greatly admired by philosopher Paul Feyerabend.
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Felix Ehrenhaft won the Haitinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1917.
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Felix Ehrenhaft earned his doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1903, working on the optical properties of metallic colloids.
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Felix Ehrenhaft was awarded the Lieben Prize of the Vienna Academy of Sciences for his work.
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Felix Ehrenhaft adapted his apparatus to measure the elementary charge and subsequently became involved in a bitter controversy with Robert Millikan, claiming to have measured an electric charge less than that of a single electron, Millikan being passed over for the 1920 Nobel Prize in physics owing to the unresolved nature of the debate.
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Felix Ehrenhaft became professor of experimental physics at Vienna in 1920 and was known as a conscientious researcher and effective lecturer though single-minded to the point of absurdity.
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Felix Ehrenhaft observed many genuinely surprising and reproducible physical phenomena, usually of ultra-microscopic particles near the limits of perception.
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Felix Ehrenhaft found it impossible to obtain either research funding or even a sympathetic hearing in the US In 1946, he returned to the University of Vienna where he held again his old position until his death.
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Felix Ehrenhaft became increasingly certain that he had observed magnetic monopoles, magnetic currents and magnetolysis, the disassociation of liquids by magnets rather than electric current as in electrolysis.