Johannes Stark was a German physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1919 "for his discovery of the Doppler effect in canal rays and the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields".
15 Facts About Johannes Stark
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Johannes Stark was an extraordinary professor at Leibniz University Hannover from 1906 until he became a professor at RWTH Aachen University in 1909.
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Johannes Stark was appointed head of the German Research Foundation in 1933 and was president of the Reich Physical-Technical Institute from 1933 to 1939.
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Johannes Stark worked in various positions at the Physics Institute of his alma mater until 1900, when he became an unsalaried lecturer at the University of Gottingen.
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Johannes Stark worked and researched at physics departments of several universities, including the University of Greifswald, until 1922.
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From 1933 until his retirement in 1939, Johannes Stark was elected President of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt, while President of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
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Johannes Stark published more than 300 papers, mainly regarding electricity and other such topics.
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Johannes Stark received various awards, including the Nobel Prize, the Baumgartner Prize of the Vienna Academy of Sciences, the Vahlbruch Prize of the Gottingen Academy of Sciences, and the Matteucci Medal of the Rome Academy.
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Johannes Stark married Luise Uepler, and they had five children.
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Johannes Stark's hobbies were the cultivation of fruit trees and forestry.
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Johannes Stark worked in his private laboratory, which he set up using his Nobel prize money, on his country estate in Upper Bavaria after the second world war.
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Johannes Stark attacked theoretical physics as "Jewish" and stressed that scientific positions in Nazi Germany should only be held by pure-blooded Germans.
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In 1947, following the defeat of Germany in World War II, Johannes Stark was classified as a "Major Offender" and received a sentence of four years' imprisonment by a denazification court.
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Johannes Stark spent the last years of his life on his Gut Eppenstatt near Traunstein in Upper Bavaria, where he died in 1957 at the age of 83.
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Johannes Stark was buried in Schonau am Konigssee in the mountain cemetery.