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    Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (/hɜːrts/ HURTS; German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈhɛʁts]; 22 February 1857 – 1 January 1894) was a German physicist who first conclusively proved...
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    base units is s−1, meaning that one hertz is the reciprocal of one second. It is named after Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857–1894), the first person to provide...
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    of Heinrich Hertz. Hertz was born in Hamburg, the son of Auguste (née Arning) and a lawyer, Gustav Theodor Hertz (1858–1904), Heinrich Rudolf Hertz' brother...
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    The Heinrich Hertz Tower (German: Heinrich-Hertz-Turm) is a landmark radio telecommunication tower in the city of Hamburg, Germany. Designed by architect...
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    The Submillimeter Telescope (SMT), formerly known as the Heinrich Hertz Submillimeter Telescope, is a submillimeter wavelength radio telescope located...
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    Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute, HHI, also known as Fraunhofer HHI or Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, is an organization of...
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  • Hertz–Knudsen equation, also known as Knudsen-Langmuir equation describes evaporation rates, named after Heinrich Hertz and Martin Knudsen. The Hertz–Knudsen...
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    electropositive metals giving the largest photo-electric effect. In 1887, Heinrich Hertz observed the photoelectric effect and reported on the production and...
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    Gustav Ludwig Hertz and great nephew of Heinrich Hertz. Hellmuth Hertz was born on 15 October 1920 in Berlin, Germany. His father was Gustav Hertz who, along...
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    stands for radio detection and ranging) started with experiments by Heinrich Hertz in the late 19th century that showed that radio waves were reflected...
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    Yale University, his mother Maria is a grandniece of German physicist Heinrich Hertz, after whom the scientific unit for cycles-per-second is named. Willis...
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    The existence of radio waves was first proven by German physicist Heinrich Hertz on 11 November 1886. In the mid-1890s, building on techniques physicists...
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    Radio wave (redirect from Hertz waves)
    electromagnetic waves of very short wavelength. In 1887, German physicist Heinrich Hertz demonstrated the reality of Maxwell's electromagnetic waves by experimentally...
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    Gauss, Carl Friedrich. Werke [Collected Works]. Vol. 5. p. 23–28. Hertz, Heinrich (1896). Principles of Mechanics. Miscellaneous Papers. Vol. III. Macmillan...
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    elastic solids" ("Ueber die Berührung fester elastischer Körper") by Heinrich Hertz. Hertz was attempting to understand how the optical properties of multiple...
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    The discovery of electromagnetic waves, including radio waves, by Heinrich Rudolf Hertz in the 1880s came after theoretical development on the connection...
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    The experimental proof of Maxwell's equations was demonstrated by Heinrich Hertz in a series of experiments in the 1890s. After that, Maxwell's equations...
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    was used by Crookes, Johann Hittorf, Julius Plücker, Eugen Goldstein, Heinrich Hertz, Philipp Lenard, Kristian Birkeland and others to discover the properties...
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    modern countries. The parabolic antenna was invented by German physicist Heinrich Hertz during his discovery of radio waves in 1887. He used cylindrical parabolic...
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    Electromagnetic radiation (category Heinrich Hertz)
    that light itself is an EM wave. Maxwell's equations were confirmed by Heinrich Hertz through experiments with radio waves. Maxwell's equations established...
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  • at their ends. Placing one above the other forms an induction coil. Heinrich Hertz used them in his discovery of radio waves. They are named for German...
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    first two telescopes, the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope and the Heinrich Hertz Submillimeter Telescope began operations in 1993. The Large Binocular...
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    inventors and entrepreneurs who studied or taught there, including Heinrich Hertz, Karl Friedrich Benz and the founders of SAP SE. The University of Karlsruhe...
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  • The IEEE Heinrich Hertz Medal was a science award presented by the IEEE for outstanding achievements in the field of electromagnetic waves. The medal was...
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  • What is a Joule ? Henri Becquerel Tesla's Biography Tesla (unit) Heinrich Hertz Hertz Rolf Sievert, the man and the unit About L.G.Gray Gray Isaac Asimov:...
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    Field and demonstrated the fact that light is an electromagnetic wave. Heinrich Hertz published papers in 1887 and 1888 experimentally confirming this fact...
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  • Heinrich Hertz, (1857–1894), German physicist after whom the unit of frequency was named 16761 Hertz, a minor planet Hertz (crater), on Moon "Hertz"...
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    Stemeroff, Noah; Barton, Jenifer; Harrington, Quinn (1 March 2021). "What Heinrich Hertz discovered about electric waves in 1887–1888". Archive for History of...
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    critic Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), German poet Heinrich von Herford (c. 1300–1370), Dominican friar, historian, and theologian Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894)...
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  • feminist Garnet Hertz (born 1973), Canadian artist, designer and academic Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887–1975), German physicist Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894), German...
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