 As applied in the university environment, political factors took priority over the historically applied concept of scholarly ability, even though its two most prominent supporters were the Nobel Laureates in Physics Philipp Lenard  and Johannes Stark.When Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933, the concept and movement took on more favor and more fervor.Supporters of "deutsche Physik" launched vicious attacks against leading theoretical physicists, including Arnold Sommerfeld and Werner Heisenberg.