Gustav Ludwig Hertz

Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1887-07-22 in Hamburg, Germany

Gender: male

Field: German physicist (1887–1975)

Biography

Gustav Ludwig Hertz was a German 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".

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Nobel Prize Details

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 UniversityHalle, Germany