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Wilhelm Hallwachs
Physicist, photoelectric effect (1859-1922).
Born July 9th, 1859 in Darmstadt.
Died June 20th, 1922 at 62 years old in Dresden.
Occupations
physicist, university teacher
Wikipedia
It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Ralph Waldo Emerson