Johannes Stark
German physicist
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". This phenomenon is known as the Stark effect. Wikipedia
Born: April 15, 1874, Freihung, Germany
Died: June 21, 1957 (age 83 years), Traunstein, Germany
Awards: Matteucci Medal (1915) and Nobel Prize in Physics (1919)
Doctoral advisor: Eugen von Lommel
Fields: Physics