Heinrich Hertz
German physicist (1857–1894)
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German physicist who proved electromagnetic waves were real, not just Maxwell's math. His experiments in the 1880s made the invisible visible—and gave his name to the unit of frequency.
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Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was a German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves proposed by James Clerk Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism.
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