Who was Hertz's partner in his Nobel-winning research?
James Franck
Niels Bohr
Albert Einstein
Werner Heisenberg
Answer
James Franck was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1925 with Gustav Hertz for their work on the Franck-Hertz experiment. The experiment demonstrated the quantized nature of energy levels in atoms, which is a key concept in quantum mechanics. Franck and Hertz conducted their experiment by sending electrons through a gas of mercury atoms.
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