Heinrich herz biography

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (February 22, 1857 - January 1, 1894) was a German physicist who was the first to satisfactorily demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic radiation waves by building an apparatus to produce and detect them. His discovery was a key step on the path to the use of radio waves in communications and broadcasting and the use of all the many invisible octaves of the electromagnetic spectrum to the service of humanity.

As a pioneer opening the window onto the invisible but very real world of electromagnetism, Hertz had no foundation for even imagining the multitude of uses to which these electromagnetic waves could be put.

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That task would fall to others benefiting from his discovery.

Biography

Early years

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was born in Hamburg, Germany, on February 22, 1857, the oldest of the five children of Gustav Ferdinand Hertz and Anna Elisabeth Pfefferkorn. Hertz's paternal grandfather converted from Judaism to Lutheranism and married into a Lu