Heinrich Rudolph Hertz

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Definition Proper noun A German physicist, Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857–1894), who was the first to conclusively prove the existence of electromagnetic waves by generating and detecting them artificially in a laboratory, thereby experimentally confirming James Clerk Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism. Usage The term is used as a proper noun to refer to the historical figure. * The unit of freq...