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Gustav Ferdinand Hertz (born August 2, 1827, as David Gustav Hertz in Hamburg, died September 8, 1914) was a German lawyer and senator of the Free Imperial City of Hamburg. He was the father of the pioneering physicist Heinrich Hertz . Hertz converted from Judaism to Lutheranism upon marrying Anna Elisabeth Pfefferkorn, the daughter of a ...
Gustav Hertz (born July 22, 1887, Hamburg, Ger.—died Oct. 30, 1975, Berlin, E.Ger.) was a German physicist who, with James Franck, received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1925 for the Franck-Hertz experiment. This experiment confirmed the quantum theory that energy can be absorbed by an atom only in definite amounts and provided an important ...
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Hertz was born in Hamburg, the son of Auguste (née Arning) and a lawyer, Gustav Theodor Hertz (1858–1904), Heinrich Rudolf Hertz' brother. He attended the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums before studying at the Georg-August University of Göttingen (1906–1907), the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (1907–1908), and the Humboldt ...
Gustav Ludwig Hertz. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1925. Born: 22 July 1887, Hamburg, Germany. Died: 30 October 1975, Berlin, East Germany (now Germany) Affiliation at the time of the award: Halle University, Halle, Germany. Prize motivation: “for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom”.
May 23, 2018 · HERTZ, GUSTAV. HERTZ, GUSTAV (1887–1975), German physicist and Nobel Prize winner, son of a Jewish father. Born in Hamburg, he became an assistant in the Physical Institute at Berlin in 1913. He was severely wounded in World War i, and subsequently worked at Eindhoven in the Netherlands. In 1925 he became professor of physics and director of ...
Gustav Hertz died aged 88 on 30 October 1975 in Berlin, highly honored and a member of many academies. He was the only one of the nine distinguished scientists expelled from their positions at Technische Hochschule Berlin to survive the dictatorship and war in the capital of the Third Reich. Today his memory is commemorated in the Gustav Hertz ...
Gustav Hertz (senior) was a lawyer who was one of the brothers of Heinrich Hertz, the discoverer of wireless waves, who also has a biography in this archive. Gustav, the subject of this biography, attended the Johanneum Gymnasium in Hamburg as his famous uncle had done about thirty years earlier. He graduated from the Johanneum in 1906 and ...
