  gustav ludwig hertz (22 july 1887 â 30 october 1975) was a german experimental physicist and nobel prize winner, and a nephew of heinrich rudolf hertz. ==biography== hertz was born in hamburg, the son of auguste (nÃ©e arning) and a lawyer, gustav theodor hertz (1858â1904),http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1925/hertz-bio.html heinrich rudolf hertz' brother. he studied at the georg-august university of gÃ¶ttingen (1906â1907), the ludwig maximilians university of munich (1907â1908), and the humboldt university of berlin (1908â1911). he received his doctorate in 1911 under heinrich leopold rubens.gustav hertz Ãber das ultrarote adsorptionsspektrum der kohlensÃ¤ure in seiner abhÃ¤ngigkeit von druck und partialdruck. (dissertation). (vieweg braunschweig, 1911)mehra and rechenberg, 2001, 197. from 1911 to 1914, hertz was an assistant to rubens at the university of berlin. it was during this time that hertz and james franck performed experiments on inelastic electron collisions in gases,j. franck and g. hertz Ãber zusammenstÃ¶Ãe zwischen elektronen und molekÃ¼len des quecksilberdampfes und die ionisierungsspannung desselben, verh. dtsch. phys. ges. 16 457â467 (1914). known as the franckâhertz experiments, and for which they received the nobel prize in physics in 1925.hentschel, 1996, appendix f; see entry for hertz. during world war i, hertz served in the military from 1914. he was seriously wounded in 1915. in 1917, he returned to the university of berlin as a privatdozent. in 1920, he took a job as a research physicist at the philips incandescent lamp factory in eindhoven, which he held until 1925.hertz â nobel biography. ===career=== in 1925, hertz became ordinarius professor and director of the physics institute of the martin luther university of halle-wittenberg. in 1928 he became ordinarius professor of experimental physics and director of the physics institute of the [[technical university of berlin|berlin technische hochschule]
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