Person
Gustav Ludwig Hertz
1887 – 1975 · aged 88
German physicist (1887–1975)
- Born
- 22 Jul 1887 · Hamburg
- Died
- 30 Oct 1975 · East Berlin
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
Showing 101 years
- 22 Jul 1887BornBorn in Hamburg
- 1925AwardNobel Prize in Physics
- 1951AwardMax Planck Medal
- 1951AwardStalin Prize
- 1959AwardHelmholtz Medal
- 1959AwardHervorragender Wissenschaftler des Volkes
- 30 Oct 1975DiedDied in East Berlin
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1887 – 1975).
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
Biography
Gustav Ludwig Hertz (German: [ˈɡʊstaf ˈluːtvɪç ˈhɛʁts] ; 22 July 1887 – 30 October 1975) was a German experimental physicist who shared the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics with James Franck "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom."
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