Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Details about Heinrich Rudolf Hertz

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was a German physicist, he was born in the family of a lawyer and a senator from Hamburg. He studied at the universities of Munich and Berlin. In 1883 he became private lecturer for theoretical physics at Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel.

Between 1885 and 1889 he was professor of physics at the Technical University of Karlsruhe. From 1889 he was professor of physics at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Rheinischen of Bonn. Hertz died at only 37 years of Wegner's granulatoza.

Hertz first discovered in Karlsruhe with the existence of electromagnetic wave oscillator.

He proved to be the same and moving the same speed as light waves. The results were the basis for development of wireless telegraphy and radio.

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