Gustav Hertz - Definition

Gustav Ludwig Hertz (July 22 1887, Hamburg – October 30 1975, Berlin) was a German physicist, and a nephew of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz. He won a Nobel Prize in 1925 for studies in cooperation with James Franck of electrons passing through gas.

He was the father of Carl Hellmuth Hertz.

See also

• Franck-Hertz experiment

External link

• Biography at Nobel.se (http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1925/hertz-bio.html)