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  1. Gustav Ludwig Hertz ( German: [ˈɡʊs.taf ˈluːt.vɪç hɛʁt͡s] ⓘ; 22 July 1887 – 30 October 1975) [1] was a German experimental physicist and Nobel Prize winner for his work on inelastic electron collisions in gases, and a nephew of Heinrich Hertz .

  2. Mar 12, 2024 · 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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  3. Gustav Ludwig Hertz was a renowned German experimental physicist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize for Physics for the Franck-Hertz experiments on inelastic electron collisions in gases. Early Life. Gustav Ludwig Hertz’s was born on 22 July 1887 in Hamburg. His father was Gustav Theodor Hertz, a lawyer and his mother was Auguste Arning.

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  5. 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 ...

  6. Gustav Ludwig Hertz was born July 22, 1887 in Hamburg, Germany. After attending the Johanneum school in Hamburg, Hertz went on to study at universities in Göttingen (1906-1907), Munich (1907-1908 ...

  7. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1925 was awarded jointly to James Franck and Gustav Ludwig Hertz "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom"

  8. Gustav Ludwig Hertz got married to Elle Dihlmann in 1919 and the couple had two children—both son—named Carl Helmut Hertz and Johannes Heinrich Hertz. Both his sons went on to become physicists. Elle Dihlmann died in 1941. Gustav Ludwig Hertz died on 30 October 1975 in Berlin at the age of 88.

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