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Heinrich Hertz

Heinrich Hertz
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Heinrich Rudolf Hertz 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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  1. Heinrich Hertz (this page)February 22, 1857 – January 1, 1894
  2. Henrik PontoppidanJuly 24, 1857 – August 21, 1943
  3. Karl Adolph GjellerupJune 2, 1857 – October 11, 1919
  4. Lucien Lévy-BruhlApril 10, 1857 – March 13, 1939
  5. Muhammad Shibli NomaniJune 3, 1857 – November 18, 1914
  6. Thorstein VeblenJuly 30, 1857 – August 3, 1929

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