GK QUESTION#3479
Which listed Nobel laureate is associated with experimental research on cathode rays produced in low-pressure electrical discharge tubes?
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D. Philipp Lenard
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Philipp Lenard carried out important experimental studies of cathode rays and received the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physics for that work. Low-pressure electrical discharge tubes were central to this research. He was one of several investigators of discharge phenomena, rather than the sole originator of every observation involving such tubes.