The Nobel Prize in Physics 1926
Awarded on: 1926-11-11
"for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom"
Affiliations:
- Halle University – Halle, Germany
Gustav Ludwig Hertz
Born: 1887-07-22 in Hamburg, Germany
Gender: male
Field: German atomic physicist (1887–1975)
Biography
Gustav Ludwig Hertz was a German atomic physicist who shared the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics with James Franck "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom".