Heinrich Hertz Facts
Heinrich Hertz Facts
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| Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was born in Hamburg, Germany and was the son of a prosperous barrister. |
| He attended the Gelhrtenschule des Johanneums grammer school where he showed a gift for languages, learning Latin, Sanskrit, and Arabic. |
| In 1880 he received a PhD cum laude from the University of Berlin, and in 1883 he took a position as lecturer in theoretical physics at the University of Kiel. |
| From 1885 to 1889 while he was professor of physics at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic, he produced electromagnetic waves and measured their length and velocity. |
| His experiments proved the behavior of the electromagnetic waves predicted by James Maxwell, and he built an apparatus to measure the velocity of the electromagnetic waves. |
| He proved Maxwell's theory that light and heat are electromagnetic radiations. |
| From 1886 to 1894 he held the post of Professor of Physics and Director of the Physics Institute in Bonn, where he continued his research on electricity in rarefied gases. |
| Between 1886 and 1889 Hertz published two papers on contact mechanics that would prove extremely important to the field of electrodynamics. |
| In 1887 he published his paper, "On Electromagnetic Effects Produced by Electrical Disturbances in Insulators." |
| Hertz discovered the photoelectric effect which states that a charged object loses its charge faster when exposed to ultraviolet light. |
| He did not realize the importance and practical implications of his experiments and did not foresee their eventual use in wireless communications. |
| In 1930 the hertz (Hz) was established as the name for frequency replacing the previous "cycles per second." |
| He died of Wegener's granulomatosis at the age of 36. |
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