Gustav Ludwig Hertz
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 1925for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atomTogether with: James Franck
- Citizenship
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German Reich
Soviet Union
East Germany
- Languages
- German
- date of birth
- 7/22/1887
- place of birth
- Hamburg
- date of death
- 10/30/1975
- place of death
- East Berlin
- Lived
- 88 years
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- employer
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- Sokhumi Institute of Physics and Technology
- end time: 1954
- start time: 1945
- Leipzig University
- start time: 1954
- end time: 1961
- Siemens
- end time: 1945
- start time: 1935
- Technische Universität Berlin
- end time: 1935
- start time: 1928
- Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
- start time: 1925
- end time: 1928
- Koninklijke Philips NV
- end time: 1925
- start time: 1920
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- start time: 1913
- end time: 1920
- Sokhumi Institute of Physics and Technology
- member of
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- Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- start time: 1/24/1955
- end time: 9/1/1961
- Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- start time: 9/1/1961
- Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Academy of Sciences of the USSR
- Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
- German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Russian Academy of Sciences
- German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
- Romanian Academy
- Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- educated at
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- University of Göttingen
- end time: 1908
- start time: 1906
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- end time: 1909
- start time: 1908
- Frederick William University Berlin
- start time: 1909
- end time: 1911
- Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- University of Göttingen
- field of work
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- physics
- occupation
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- physicist
- university teacher
- notable work
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- Franck–Hertz experiment
- doctoral student
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- Heinz Pose