Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index 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. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.