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The physicist Gustav Hertz was born in Hamburg in 1887. He studied in Göttingen, Munich, and in Berlin, where he worked on nuclear research; he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1925. In 1934, Hertz was forced to resign from a position at Technische Hochschule Berlin, due to a Jewish-born ancestor, but he continued working at Siemens. He moved to the Soviet Union in 1945 to continue his work on nuclear research, and in 1955 he returned to Germany – to the German Democratic Republic (East-Germany). Gustav Hertz died in East-Berlin in 1975.

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Gustav Hertz, Leo Baeck Institute, F 2897.