biography
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Hertz, Heinrich (Rudolf)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1857–1894)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Hamburg, N Germany. He studied under Kirchhoff and Helmholtz in Berlin, and became professor at Bonn in 1889. His main work was on electromagnetic waves (1887), and he was the first to broadcast and receive radio waves. The unit of frequency is named after him. |
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