heinrich hertz
noun · n
Simple meaning
German physicist who was the first to produce electromagnetic waves artificially.
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ˈhaɪnɹɪkˈhɛɹts
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German physicist who was the first to produce electromagnetic waves artificially (1857-1894)
n
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (22 February 1857 – 1 January 1894) was a German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves predicted by James Clerk Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism.
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