For the Stage Magician, see Carl Hertz

Carl Hertz

Carl Hertz was born Louis or Leib Morgenstein in San Francisco.After becoming proficient in the art of magic, he toured America, Europe and Australia, which he had first visited in 1892...

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Carl Hellmuth Hertz (1920–1990) was the son of Gustav Ludwig Hertz

Gustav Ludwig Hertz

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During the World War II

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 he served as a soldier for Nazi Germany

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. He was captured by USA troops and brought overseas. However a friend of his father, who was a Nobel Prize

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 laureate, arranged for Hertz to be freed and also found him a job in Lund

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, Sweden

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 so that he could leave the States while still not having to return to Germany.

There, he would develop medical ultrasonography

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 and serve as the first professor

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 of electrical measurements

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 at Lund University

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His son, professor Hans Hertz, is currently employed at Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Sweden involved in biomedical physics, and also appointed to the Swedish Royal Academy of Science.