Gustav Ludwig Hertz
Also known as Gustav Hertz
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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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- Germany
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- 1770-12-17
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- 1827-03-26
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Gustav Ludwig Hertz (Hamburg, 22 juli 1887 – Oost-Berlijn, 30 oktober 1975) was een Duits natuurkundige en winnaar van de Nobelprijs voor Natuurkunde in 1925, samen met James Franck, "voor hun ontdekking van de wetten die gelden voor de botsing van een elektron met een atoom". Het duo deed baanbrekende proeven met elektronenbundels. Hij was een neef van de bekendere Heinrich Hertz
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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