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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. 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. 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 ...

  8. Hertz, Gustav, 1887-1975. Hertz, Gustav Ludwig, 1887-1975. Biography Abstract. Gustav Hertz was an atomic physicist at Halle University. He was awarded the Nobel ...

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