Gustav Ludwig Hertz
Also known as Gustav Hertz
German physicist (1887–1975)
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Gustav Ludwig Hertz was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1925 for discovering how electrons lose energy when colliding with atoms, a finding that helped prove the existence of energy levels within atoms. His work provided crucial experimental evidence supporting the new quantum theory of atomic structure that was being developed in the early 20th century.
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Gustav Ludwig Hertz ( German: [ˈɡʊstaf ˈluːtvɪç ˈhɛʁts] ; 22 July 1887 – 30 October 1975) was a German experimental physicist who shared the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics with James Franck "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom."
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1887 births1975 deaths20th-century German physicistsAcademic staff of Leipzig UniversityAcademic staff of Technische Universität BerlinBurials at the Ohlsdorf CemeteryEast German scientistsForeign members of the USSR Academy of SciencesGerman expatriates in the Soviet UnionGerman experimental physicistsGerman Nobel laureatesGerman people of Jewish descent