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TIL:Phillip Lenard,a Nobel Prize winner for his work on cathode rays was a fierce German nationalist.Under the Nazi regime,he was made the "Chief of Aryan Physics".Lenard's fervent support for Hitler made him launch malicious attacks directed towards Einstein and Roentgen.

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