Gustav Hertz (Noun)
Meaning
German physicist who with James Franck proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Bohr (1887-1975).
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- Gustav Hertz's research led to numerous breakthroughs in understanding atomic physics and their application to real-world problems.
- Hertz collaborated intensively with Alfred Kastler, a renowned French physicist and Nobel laureate in 1966.
- His collaboration with James Franck finally led to definitive proof of the quantized energy levels predicted by Niels Bohr.
- Gustav Hertz received a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1925 for demonstrating that energy can be transferred from a collision but can only assume discrete amounts from an atom's electron.
- The German physicist 'Gustav Hertz' used his groundbreaking experiment involving electron-atom interactions to validate many atomic physics concepts and phenomena proposed by various researchers at the time.