Gustav Ludwig Hertz
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 Gustav Ludwig Hertz |
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| Born | July 22, 1887 Hamburg, Germany |
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| Died | Berlin, Germany October 30, 1975 |
| Residence |  Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Field | Physicist |
| Institution | Halle University |
| Alma mater | Humboldt University of Berlin |
| Academic advisor | Heinrich Rubens and Max Planck |
| Known for | Franck-Hertz experiment |
| Notable prizes | Nobel Prize (1925) |
| Father of Carl Hellmuth Hertz | |
Gustav Ludwig Hertz (July 22, 1887, Hamburg – October 30, 1975, Berlin) was a German physicist, and a nephew of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz.
Hertz won a Nobel Prize in 1925 for studies in cooperation with James Franck of electrons passing through gas. The Franck-Hertz experiment was an early physics experiment that provided support for the Bohr model of the atom, a precursor to quantum mechanics.
In 1914, an experiment probe of the energy levels of the atom was conducted. The now-famous Franck-Hertz experiment elegantly supported Niels Bohr's model of the atom, with electrons orbiting the nucleus with specific, discrete energies. He was the father of Carl Hellmuth Hertz.
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1901: Röntgen 1902: Lorentz, Zeeman 1903: Becquerel, P. Curie, M. Curie 1904: Rayleigh 1905: Lenard 1906: Thomson 1907: Michelson 1908: Lippmann 1909: Marconi, Braun 1910: van der Waals 1911: Wien 1912: Dalén 1913: Kamerlingh Onnes 1914: von Laue 1915: W. L. Bragg, W. H. Bragg 1917: Barkla 1918: Planck 1919: Stark 1920: Guillaume 1921: Einstein 1922: N. Bohr 1923: Millikan 1924: Siegbahn 1925: Franck, Hertz
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