Eugen Goldstein
German physicist
Eugen Goldstein was a German physicist. He was an early investigator of discharge tubes, the discoverer of anode rays or canal rays, later identified as positive ions in the gas phase including the hydrogen ion. He was the great uncle of the... Wikipedia
Born: September 5, 1850, Gliwice, Poland
Died: December 25, 1930 (age 80 years), Berlin, Germany
Known for: Discovery of canal rays
Education: Humboldt University of Berlin (1879) and University of Wrocław (1869–1870)
Award: Hughes Medal (1908)
Parents: Bertha Goldstein and Julius Goldstein