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Gustav Ludwig Hertz

1887 - 1975

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Gustav Ludwig Hertz (German: [ˈɡʊs.taf ˈluːt.vɪç hɛʁt͡s] ; 22 July 1887 – 30 October 1975) 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". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gustav Ludwig Hertz is the 87th most popular physicist (up from 189th in 2019), the 211th most popular biography from Germany (up from 632nd in 2019) and the 11th most popular German Physicist.

Gustav Ludwig Hertz was a German physicist who is most famous for his work in the field of electromagnetic waves. He was the first person to show that these waves could be reflected, refracted, and diffracted.

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Among physicists, Gustav Ludwig Hertz ranks 87 out of 851. Before him are Manne Siegbahn, Luis Walter Alvarez, Victor Francis Hess, Gustaf Dalén, Allan MacLeod Cormack, and Johannes Stark. After him are Rudolf Clausius, Robert Andrews Millikan, Georg Bednorz, C. F. Powell, Otto von Guericke, and Carl David Anderson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Gustav Ludwig Hertz ranks 12. Before him are Charles I of Austria, Erich von Manstein, Padre Pio, Marcel Duchamp, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and Ernst Röhm. After him are Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, Vidkun Quisling, Arthur Rubinstein, Wilhelm Canaris, Jozef Tiso, and Leopold Ružička. Among people deceased in 1975, Gustav Ludwig Hertz ranks 14. Before him are Umm Kulthum, Aristotle Onassis, Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Robert Robinson, Otto Skorzeny, and Josephine Baker. After him are Edward Tatum, Mikhail Bakhtin, Arnold J. Toynbee, George Paget Thomson, Saint-John Perse, and Josemaría Escrivá.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gustav Ludwig Hertz ranks 211 out of 7,253. Before him are Gottlob Frege (1848), Princess Ludovika of Bavaria (1808), Hans Zimmer (1957), Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776), Johannes Stark (1874), and Hans Lippershey (1570). After him are Wilhelm, German Crown Prince (1882), Frank-Walter Steinmeier (1956), Frederick V of the Palatinate (1596), Ferdinand I of Romania (1865), Hans Frank (1900), and Augustus III of Poland (1696).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Gustav Ludwig Hertz ranks 11. Before him are Georg Ohm (1789), Heinrich Hertz (1857), Max Born (1882), Max von Laue (1879), Hermann von Helmholtz (1821), and Johannes Stark (1874). After him are Georg Bednorz (1950), Otto von Guericke (1602), J. Hans D. Jensen (1907), Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804), Walther Bothe (1891), and Ernst Ruska (1906).

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