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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". James Franck and Gustav Hertz received their Nobel Prize one year later, in 1926.
Gustav Ludwig Hertz made his most important discovery when he had just started off as a researcher in the University of Berlin but his career was brought to a brief halt when he had to serve the army after the break out of the First World War.
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In this lesson, we will look at the life of German physicist Gustav Ludwig Hertz. Recipient of the Nobel Prize and the Max Planck medal, Hertz made great contributions to the field of...
Energy. Atoms. Capable. The energy of an electron after the collision is studied by determining the retarding potential which it can still overcome. Gustav Ludwig Hertz. Can. Energy. Electron. Overcome. We need not discuss here the reasons for this particular arrangement of the terms.
Gustav Hertz (1887-1975) arrived at Technische Hochschule zu Berlin in 1927, one year after receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics, and established the new Institute of Physics here. He brilliantly combined applied research with basic principles.
In 1925 Hertz was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics for his work with James Franck on the quantized nature of energy transfer.
Gustav Hertz was a German physicist born on July 22, 1887 in Hamburg, Germany. He was the nephew of the renowned physicist Heinrich Hertz and won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1925 for his investigations into the interactions of electrons and atoms.
