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Gustav Ludwig Hertz

1887 - 1975

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Gustav Ludwig Hertz (; German: [ˈɡʊs.taf ˈluːt.vɪç hɛʁt͡s] ; 22 July 1887 – 30 October 1975) was a German physicist and a Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on inelastic electron collisions in gases. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gustav Ludwig Hertz has received more than 248,799 page views. His biography is available in 81 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). Gustav Ludwig Hertz is the 189th most popular physicist (down from 79th in 2019), the 632nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 291st in 2019) and the 31st most popular German Physicist.

Gustav Ludwig Hertz was a German physicist who is most famous for his work in the field of electromagnetic waves. He was the first person to show that these waves could be reflected, refracted, and diffracted.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Gustav Ludwig Hertz ranks 189 out of 851. Before him are Igor Tamm, Martinus J. G. Veltman, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Klaus von Klitzing, Charles H. Townes, and David Bohm. After him are Wolfgang Paul, Benjamin Thompson, Robert H. Goddard, Nikolay Basov, Douglas Osheroff, and Herbert Kroemer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Gustav Ludwig Hertz ranks 32. Before him are Georgia O'Keeffe, Ruth Benedict, Leopold Ružička, Nadia Boulanger, Wolfgang Köhler, and Nikolai Vavilov. After him are Lothar Rendulic, August Macke, Erich Mendelsohn, Kurt Schwitters, John Reed, and James Paul Moody. Among people deceased in 1975, Gustav Ludwig Hertz ranks 21. Before him are Mikhail Bakhtin, Saint-John Perse, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, George Paget Thomson, Josemaría Escrivá, and Robert Robinson. After him are Antonín Novotný, Graham Hill, Jimmy Hoffa, Eisaku Satō, Paul Keres, and Latife Uşşaki.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gustav Ludwig Hertz ranks 632 out of 7,253. Before him are August Weismann (1834), Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria (1839), Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia (1892), Franz Brentano (1838), Heinrich Lübke (1894), and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1786). After him are Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland (1653), Wolfgang Paul (1913), George Grosz (1893), Sophia Charlotte of Hanover (1668), Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg (1655), and Michael Thonet (1796).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Gustav Ludwig Hertz ranks 31. Before him are Hans Geiger (1882), Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742), Klaus Fuchs (1911), Gerd Binnig (1947), Hans Georg Dehmelt (1922), and Polykarp Kusch (1911). After him are Wolfgang Paul (1913), Herbert Kroemer (1928), Theodor W. Hänsch (1941), Horst Ludwig Störmer (1949), Klaus Hasselmann (1931), and Georg Bednorz (1950).

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