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Gustav Ludwig Hertz

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Gustav Ludwig Hertz (July 7 1887, Hamburg - October 30 1975, Berlin) was a physicist, and a nephew of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz. He won a Nobel Prize in 1925 for studies in cooperation with James Franck of electrons passing through gas.

He was the father of Carl Hellmuth Hertz.