biography
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Hertz, Gustav (Ludwig)
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| (1887–1975)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Hamburg, N Germany, the nephew of Heinrich Hertz. He studied at Göttingen, Munich, and Berlin, then taught physics at Berlin (1913–25), where he worked with James Franck on experiments supporting quantum theory, and they shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1925. After World War 2 he went to the USSR to become head of a research laboratory (1945–54), and returned to East Germany to be director of Karl Marx University, Leipzig (1954–61). |
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