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Stark, Johannes (1874–1957)


Johannes Stark
Bavarian-born German physicist awarded the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the Stark effect (1913), the splitting of degenrate spectral lines through the application of a powerful electric field. The explanation of this was an early triumph of quantum theory.


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