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Heinrich Hertz
German physicist (1857–1894)
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (, HURTS; German:[ˈhaɪnʁɪçhɛʁts];[1][2] 22 February 1857 – 1 January 1894) was a German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves predicted by James Clerk Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism.
The SI unit of frequency, the hertz (Hz), is named after him.[3]
Biography
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was born in 1857 in Hamburg, then a sovereign state of the German Confederation, into a prosperous and cultured Hanseatic family.
His father was Gustav Ferdinand Hertz.[4] His mother was Anna Elisabeth Pfefferkorn.[5]
While studying at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums in Hamburg, Hertz showed an aptitude for sciences as well as languages, learning Arabic.
He studied sciences and engineering in the German cities of Dresden, Munich and Berlin, where he studied under Gustav R. Kirchhoff and Hermann von Helmholtz. In