Biography on the german physicist gustav hertz

Gustav Herts

German physicist, nephew of Heinrich Hertz. Together with Frank, he measured the energy of a quantum and discovered the law of collision of an electron with an atom.

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Nobel Prize Laureate

Date of Birth: 22.07.1887
Country: Germany

Biography of Gustav Ludwig Hertz

Gustav Ludwig Hertz was a German physicist and the nephew of Heinrich Hertz. Together with James Franck, he measured the energy of the quantum and discovered the law of electron collision with an atom.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize.

Early Life and Education
Gustav Ludwig Hertz was born in Hamburg, Germany, to lawyer Gustav Hertz and Augusta (Arning) Hertz. His uncle, Rudolf Heinrich Hertz, was one of the most prominent physicists of the late 19th century.

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Hertz completed his secondary education at the Johanneum School in Hamburg. In 1906, he enrolled at the University of Göttingen, where he studied mathematics and mathematical physics under David Hilbert and Carl Runge. He then continued his Gustav Hertz - GUTI