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When the electrode was heated, it would shoot cathode rays across the chamber toward the sphere.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019

He verified the negative charge of the cathode rays with both magnetic and electric fields.

From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015

Lenard discovered how to enable cathode rays to escape from the vacuum chamber in which they were created, so that they could be examined more closely.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 13, 2015

Philipp Lenard, who won a Nobel Prize for his work on cathode rays, wrote a four-­volume treatise on the one true science and called it “German Physics.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2012

It was left, however, for Professor Röntgen to discover that during the discharge quite other rays are set free, which differ greatly from those described by Lenard as cathode rays.

From Little Masterpieces of Science: Invention and Discovery by George Iles


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