Gustav Ludwig Hertz - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1925
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Gustav Ludwig Hertz

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1925
for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom
Together with: James Franck
Citizenship
German Reich German Reich Soviet Union Soviet Union East Germany 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
employer
  • 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
member of
  • 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
educated at
  • 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
field of work
  • physics
occupation
  • physicist
  • university teacher
notable work
  • Franck–Hertz experiment
doctoral student
  • Heinz Pose
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