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Gustav Ludwig Hertz was a renowned German physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics for the Franck-Hertz experiments on inelastic electron collisions in gases.

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Gustav Ludwig Hertz was a renowned German physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics for the Franck-Hertz experiments on inelastic electron collisions in gases.

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EARLY LIFE

  • Gustav Ludwig Hertz was born on July 22, 1887, to Gustav Theodor Hertz and Auguste Arning. Heinrich Hertz, the famous expert on electromagnetic waves was his uncle.
  • Gustav enrolled at the University of Gottingen in 1906 to study physics after finishing his schooling at the Johanneum Gymnasium.
  • After a year, he switched to Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. He continued schooling at the Humboldt University of Berlin from 1908-1911, and he received his doctorate there.
  • His thesis was about the ultra-red absorption spectrum of carbonic acid as a function of pressure and partial pressure.

ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Gustav Hertz, together with James Franck, won the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics for the Franck-Hertz experiment, which confirmed the quantum theory that energy can be absorbed by an atom only in certain quantities. This provided an important confirmation of the Bohr Atomic model.
  • Hertz studied at the universities of Göttingen, Munich, and Berlin, and he was appointed as an assistant in physics at the University of Berlin in 1913, where he later worked with Franck.
  • Hertz and Franck’s experiments have shown that when an electron strikes a mercury vapor atom, the electron should have a certain energy (4.9 electron volts [eV] in this case) in order to do so.

CAREER

  • Hertz was forced to take a break from his studies and experiments because he served in the Army in 1914 during the First World War.
  • Hertz was seriously wounded in the war in 1915. After making a slow recovery, he was discharged from the army in 1917 and returned to the University of Berlin to become a Privatdozent.
  • Gustav became a research physicist in Eindhoven in 1920 at the Philips Incandescent Lamp Factory and remained there for more than five years. Hertz spent most of his time researching the separation of gasses (the production of pure forms of a certain gas by diffusion).
  • In 1925, Hertz was appointed Professor of Physics and Director of the Physics Institute at the University of Halle.
  • In 1928, he was appointed Director of the Institute of Physics at Charlottenburg Technological University, Berlin. His main task now had less to do with research and more about the administration as he worked to rebuild the Physics Institute.
  • Hertz, however, devised a technique called “diffusion cascade” to separate helium and neon isotopes by gaseous diffusion in 1932. This work was to become useful in the race for nuclear energy and the use of uranium isotopes.
  • Since Hertz was an officer during the First World War, he was initially exempted from National Socialist policies and the Law on the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, but the policies and laws gradually became stricter.
  • Hertz was forced to resign his position at the Technological University of Berlin in 1935 and returned to the industry as Director of the Siemens Physical Laboratory.
  • After the Second World War, Hertz took a position in Soviet Russia in 1945, becoming involved in nuclear research and producing radioactive isotopes.
  • In 1949, Hertz worked with six other German scientists on a project called Sverdlovsk-44 on the enrichment of uranium for nuclear weapons.
  • Hertz moved to Moscow in 1950, and in 1951, he was awarded the Stalin Prize, second class, together with Barwich.
  • In the same year, he and Franck received the Max Planck Medal.

LATER YEARS

  • Gustav Hertz eventually returned to Germany in 1955, accepting a professorship at the University of Leipzig. He taught experimental physics, and he remained there until he retired in 1961.
  • Hertz published a book on the principles and methods of nuclear physics in 1957, as well as a three-volume work on nuclear science from 1958 to 1962.

PERSONAL LIFE

  • Hertz married Ellen Dihlmann in 1919, and their marriage produced two sons, Johannes Heinrich Hertz and Carl Helmut Hertz.
  • His wife died in 1941, and he married Charlotte Jollasse in 1943.
  • On October 30, 1975, Gustav died at the age of 88.

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