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Heinrich Rudolf Hertz:
On February 22, 1857, Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, the German physicist, after whom the unit of frequency was renamed the hertz, was born in Hamburg, now in Germany (d. 1894).
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    Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was born in Hamburg, Germany on February 22, 1857 to Gustav Ferdinand Hertz, an advisor in Hamburg, and Anna Elisabeth Pfefferkorn, the daughter of a doctor.

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    German physicist who studied electromagnetic waves, showing that their behaviour resembles that of light and heat waves. Hertz confirmed James Clerk Maxwell's theory of ...

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    A German-Jewish physicist whose laboratory experiments confirmed Maxwell's theory of electromagnetic waves and yielded useful information about their behaviour

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