| Gustav Hertz  AKA Gustav Ludwig Hertz
Born: 22-Jul-1887
Birthplace: Hamburg, Germany
Died: 30-Oct-1975
Location of death: Berlin, Germany
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: Germany
Executive summary: Franck-Hertz experiment Military service: German Army (WWI, 1914-15, injured) Father: Gustav Hertz (lawyer)
Mother: Auguste Arning
Wife: Ellen Dihlmann (m. 1919, d. 1941, two sons)
Son: Carl Hellmuth Hertz (physicist, b. 1920, d. 1990)
Son: Johannes Hertz (physicist)
Wife: Charlotte Jollasse (m. 1943)
High School: Johanneum School, Hamburg, Germany
University: University of Göttingen (1906-)
University: University of Munich
University: University of Berlin (1911)
Professor: University of Halle (1925-28)
Administrator: Director of Physics Institute, Charlottenburg Technological University, Berlin (1928-35)
Professor: Karl Marx University, Leipzig, Germany (1954-61)
Siemens Director of physics laboratory, 1935-
Nobel Prize for Physics 1925 (with James Franck)
Max Planck Medal 1951 (with James Franck)
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