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Deutsche Physik
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<p><i>Deutsche Physik</i> (German: [ˈdɔʏtʃə fyˈziːk], lit. "German Physics") or Aryan Physics (<a href="/facts/German_language/oWaQIDA8">German</a>: <i>Arische Physik</i>) was a <a href="/facts/Nationalist/IECpIhm0">nationalist</a> movement in the <a href="/facts/Germany/paluuWBX">German</a> <a href="/facts/Physics/a7aH2y08">physics</a> community in the early 1930s which had the support of many eminent physicists in Germany. The term appears in the title of a four-volume physics textbook by Nobel laureate <a href="/facts/Philipp_Lenard/e2MYF17W">Philipp Lenard</a> in the 1930s. </p><p><i>Deutsche Physik</i> was opposed to the work of <a href="/facts/Albert_Einstein/CNTet8qu">Albert Einstein</a> and other modern theoretically based physics, which was disparagingly labeled "Jewish physics" (<a href="/facts/German_language/oWaQIDA8">German</a>: <i>Jüdische Physik</i>). </p>