Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887-1975)

Awarded the Prize “for his discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom.”

German physicist. Hertz was born in Hamburg on July 22, 1887. He was educated at the universities of Munich Berlin, where he received his Ph.D. in 1911. He taught in Berlin Halle before his appointment in 1928 to Director of the Physics Institute in the Charlottenburg Technological University. He was director of the Physics Institute in Leipzig from 1945 to 1954. He was Member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Hertz died in Berlin on October 30, 1975.