The Nobel Prize Winner: Gustav Hertz

Gustav Hertz was born in 1887 in Germany. He wasn’t experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1925. He attended various universities including the University of Gottingen, University of Munich and the Humboldt University of Berlin. He worked as an assistant at the University of Berlin and during his time there he works closely with James Franck is vapor formed various experiments on inelastic electron collisions in gases therefore when they won the Nobel Prize they shared it among themselves. While he was serving in World War I he was wounded pretty badly and in 1917 returned to the University of Berlin. Soon after he moved and took a job as a research physicist at the Philips lamp factory. He was a member of various organizations and societies including the German Academy of sciences in Berlin, a member of the Gottingen Academy of sciences, a member of the Czechoslovakian Academy of sciences, a foreign member of the USSR Academy of sciences as well as an honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of sciences.