Gustav Ludwig Hertz Facts
Gustav Ludwig Hertz Facts
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| Gustav Hertz was born in Hamburg and was the son of a lawyer. |
| He entered the University of Gottingen in 1906 and graduated in 1911 from the University of Berlin. |
| His thesis studies were on the infrared absorption of carbon dioxide in relation to pressure. |
| From 1911 to 1914 he was a research assistant at the Physics Institute of Berlin and it was here that he and James Franck experimented on inelastic electron collisions in gases. |
| On April 24, 1914 their paper was presented which detailed the first electrical measurement of the quantum nature of atoms. |
| For the Franck-Hertz experiments they shared the Nobel Prize in Physics 1925. |
| He was drafted into the German Army in 1914 and severely wounded in 1915. |
| From 1920 to 1925 he worked in the physics laboratory at the Phillips Incandescent Lamp Factory at Eindhoven. |
| 1928 he became Director of the Physics Institute at Charlottenburg Technological University where he developed a technique for separating isotopes using gaseous diffusion. |
| Because he had Jewish ancestry, Hertz was anxious to leave Germany. |
| A friend contacted the Soviets on his behalf and on 27 April 1945 a major in the Soviet Army arrived at his work in an armored car and he was taken to the Soviet Union. |
| In 1945 he was called to Sverdlovsk-44 to increase its uranium enrichment capabilities. |
| In 1951 he and Franck were awarded the Max Planck Medal by the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. |
| Hertz left the Soviet Union in 1955 he accepted the post of Professor at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig. |
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