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Heinrich Hertz's nephew, Gustav Ludwig Hertz was a Nobel Prize winner, and Gustav's son Carl Helmut Hertz invented medical ultrasonography. His daughter Mathilde Carmen Hertz was a well-known biologist and comparative psychologist.
Radio waves: James Clerk Maxwell, Oliver Lodge, Heinrich Hertz, David Edward Hughes [7] Special relativity priority dispute: Albert Einstein, Henri Poincaré, Hendrik Lorentz; General relativity priority dispute: Albert Einstein, David Hilbert; Chandrasekhar limit: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Edmund Clifton Stoner, Wilhelm Anderson [8]
His father was Gustav Hertz who, along with James Franck, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1925 for their experiments on inelastic electron collisions in gases. [1] Gustav Hertz's uncle was in turn Heinrich Hertz , who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves .
Professors and former students have won six Nobel Prizes and ten Leibniz Prizes, the most prestigious as well as the best-funded prize in Europe. The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology is well known for many inventors and entrepreneurs who studied or taught there, including Heinrich Hertz, Karl Friedrich Benz and the founders of SAP SE. [16]
Heinrich Hertz: German "For his work in electro-magnetic radiation" [66] 1892 Nils Christoffer Dunér: Swedish "For his Spectroscopic Researches on Stars" [67] 1894 James Dewar: British "For his researches on the properties of matter at extremely low temperatures" [68] [69] 1896 Philipp Lenard: Hungarian
Sign on Nobel Laureates Boulevard in Rishon LeZion saluting Jewish Nobel laureates. Of the 965 individual recipients of the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences between 1901 and 2023, [1] at least 216 have been Jews or people with at least one Jewish parent, representing 22% of all recipients. Jews comprise only 0.2% of ...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -U.S. scientist John Hopfield and British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for discoveries and inventions in machine learning that paved ...
Among the 892 Nobel laureates, 48 have been women; the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. [12] She was also the first person (male or female) to be awarded two Nobel Prizes, the second award being the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, given in 1911. [11]