Person
Heinrich Hertz
1857 – 1894 · aged 37
German physicist (1857–1894)
- Born
- 22 Feb 1857 · Hamburg
- Died
- 1 Jan 1894 · Bonn
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- 22 Feb 1857BornBorn in Hamburg
- 1887AwardBressa Prize
- 1888AwardMatteucci Medal
- 1889AwardLa Caze Prize of the Academy of Sciences
- 1890AwardHonorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
- 1890AwardRumford Medal
- 1 Jan 1894DiedDied in Bonn
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- 1857 – 1858Indian Rebellion of 1857
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
Biography
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz ( hurts; German: [hɛʁts] ; 22 February 1857 – 1 January 1894) 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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