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PHYSICIST

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 experimental physicist and Nobel Prize winner for his work on inelastic electron collisions in gases, and a nephew of Heinrich Hertz. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gustav Ludwig Hertz has received more than 230,539 page views. His biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 75 in 2019). Gustav Ludwig Hertz is the 79th most popular physicist (down from 61st in 2019), the 291st most popular biography from Germany (down from 226th in 2019) and the 13th 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 79 out of 717. Before him are William Rowan Hamilton, Carl Zeiss, Jean Baptiste Perrin, Lawrence Bragg, Wilhelm Eduard Weber, and Owen Willans Richardson. After him are Albert A. Michelson, Ernst Ruska, Johannes Stark, Carl David Anderson, Barry Barish, and Clinton Davisson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Gustav Ludwig Hertz ranks 17. Before him are Arthur Rubinstein, Bernard Montgomery, Wilhelm Canaris, Jozef Tiso, Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, and Georgia O'Keeffe. After him are Juan Gris, Vidkun Quisling, Felix Yusupov, Saint-John Perse, Chūichi Nagumo, and Henry Moseley. Among people deceased in 1975, Gustav Ludwig Hertz ranks 16. Before him are Otto Skorzeny, Umm Kulthum, Arnold J. Toynbee, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Faisal of Saudi Arabia, and Mikhail Bakhtin. After him are Saint-John Perse, George Paget Thomson, Josemaría Escrivá, Graham Hill, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and Jimmy Hoffa.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gustav Ludwig Hertz ranks 291 out of 6,142. Before him are Karl Weierstrass (1815), Sepp Dietrich (1892), Frederick V of the Palatinate (1596), Christian I of Denmark (1426), Einhard (770), and Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804). After him are Gustav Stresemann (1878), Michael Ende (1929), Athanasius Kircher (1602), Alexandra Feodorovna (1798), Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1175), and Albrecht Altdorfer (1480).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Gustav Ludwig Hertz ranks 13. Before him are Hermann von Helmholtz (1821), Max Born (1882), Otto von Guericke (1602), Max von Laue (1879), Carl Zeiss (1816), and Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804). After him are Ernst Ruska (1906), Johannes Stark (1874), James Franck (1882), Walther Bothe (1891), Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787), and J. Hans D. Jensen (1907).

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