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Gustav Ludwig Hertz

Gustav Ludwig Hertz
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Gustav Ludwig Hertz was a German experimental 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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  1. Charles Galton DarwinDecember 18, 1887 – December 31, 1962
  2. Edward AndradeDecember 27, 1887 – June 6, 1971
  3. Gustav Ludwig Hertz (this page)July 22, 1887 – October 30, 1975
  4. Hedwig KohnApril 5, 1887 – March 26, 1964
  5. James Batcheller SumnerNovember 19, 1887 – August 12, 1955
  6. Leopold RužičkaSeptember 13, 1887 – September 26, 1976

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