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    Heinrich HertzGerman physicist
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    BornHeinrich Rudolf Hertz · 22 February 1857 · Hamburg, German Confederation
    Died1 January 1894 (aged 36) · Bonn, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
    Alma materUniversity of Berlin (PhD)
    SpouseElisabeth Doll (m. 1886)
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    How Hertz Proved Electromagnetic Theory
    How Hertz Proved Electromagnetic Theory
    The Discoveries of Heinrich Hertz
    The Discoveries of Heinrich Hertz
    Biography

    Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was born in 1857 in Hamburg, then a sovereign state of the German Confederation, into a prosperous and cultured Hanseatic family. His father was Gustav Ferdinand Hertz. His mother was Anna … See more

    Death

    In 1892, Hertz was diagnosed with an infection (after a bout of severe migraines) and underwent operations to treat the illness. He died due to complications after surgery which had attempted to cure his condition, s… See more

    Scientific work

    In 1864 Scottish mathematical physicist James Clerk Maxwell proposed a comprehensive theory of electromagnetism, now called Maxwell's equations. Maxwell's theory predicted that coupled electric and magnetic fi… See more

    Third Reich treatment

    Because Hertz's family converted from Judaism to Lutheranism two decades before his birth, his legacy ran afoul of the Nazi government in the 1930s, a regime that classified people by "race" instead of religious aff… See more

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