Johannes Stark (1874-1957)

Awarded the Prize “for his discovery of the Doppler effect in canal rays the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields.”

German physicist. Stark was born at Schickenhof in Germany on April 15, 1874. He was educated at the University of Munich where he obtained his doctorate began his teaching career in 1897. Between 1906 1922 he taught successively at the universities of Gottingen, Hannover (where he first became a professor), Aachen, Griefswald, Wurzburg. In 1933 he was elected President of the Physico-Technical Institute. At the same time he held the post of President of the German Research Association. Stark died in Traunstein on June 21, 1957.