Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (/hɜːrts/ HURTS; German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç hɛʁts]; 22 February 1857 – 1 January 1894) was a German physicist who first conclusively proved...
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is used only in the case of periodic events. It is named after Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857–1894), the first person to provide conclusive proof of the...
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The Heinrich Hertz Tower (German: Heinrich-Hertz-Turm) is a landmark radio telecommunication tower in the city of Hamburg, Germany. Designed by architect...
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in gases. Hertz was born in Hamburg, the son of Auguste (née Arning) and a lawyer, Gustav Theodor Hertz (1858–1904), Heinrich Rudolf Hertz's brother. He...
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Gustav Ludwig Hertz and great nephew of Heinrich Hertz. Hellmuth Hertz was born on 15 October 1920 in Berlin, Germany. His father was Gustav Hertz who, along...
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Hertz–Knudsen equation, also known as Knudsen–Langmuir equation describes evaporation rates, named after Heinrich Hertz and Martin Knudsen. The Hertz–Knudsen...
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Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications (redirect from Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute)
Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute, HHI, also known as Fraunhofer HHI or Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, is an organization of...
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Photoelectric effect (redirect from Hertz effect)
electropositive metals giving the largest photo-electric effect. In 1887, Heinrich Hertz observed the photoelectric effect and reported on the production and...
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The Submillimeter Telescope (SMT), formerly known as the Heinrich Hertz Submillimeter Telescope, is a submillimeter wavelength radio telescope located...
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History of radar (section Heinrich Hertz)
stands for radio detection and ranging) started with experiments by Heinrich Hertz in the late 19th century that showed that radio waves were reflected...
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Contact mechanics (redirect from Hertz contact stress)
elastic solids" "Über die Berührung fester elastischer Körper" by Heinrich Hertz. Hertz attempted to understand how the optical properties of multiple,...
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The existence of radio waves was first proven by German physicist Heinrich Hertz on 11 November 1886. In the mid-1890s, building on techniques physicists...
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Yale University, his mother Maria is a grandniece of German physicist Heinrich Hertz, after whom the scientific unit for cycles-per-second is named. Willis...
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been used as a given name. Heinrich Hertz, (1857–1894), German physicist after whom the unit of frequency was named Gustav Hertz (1887–1975), German experimental...
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Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, in the U.S. Army Heinrich Hertz Submillimeter Telescope Heinrich-Hertz-Turm, in Hamburg, Germany Hereditary hemorrhagic...
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Experimental Philosophy in 1881. Along with Oliver Lodge, Oliver Heaviside and Heinrich Hertz, FitzGerald was a leading figure among the group of "Maxwellians" who...
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was used by Crookes, Johann Hittorf, Julius Plücker, Eugen Goldstein, Heinrich Hertz, Philipp Lenard, Kristian Birkeland and others to discover the properties...
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Electromagnetic radiation (category Heinrich Hertz)
that light itself is an EM wave. Maxwell's equations were confirmed by Heinrich Hertz through experiments with radio waves. Maxwell's equations established...
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modern countries. The parabolic antenna was invented by German physicist Heinrich Hertz during his discovery of radio waves in 1887. He used cylindrical parabolic...
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first two telescopes, the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope and the Heinrich Hertz Submillimeter Telescope began operations in 1993. The Large Binocular...
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The experimental proof of Maxwell's equations was demonstrated by Heinrich Hertz in a series of experiments in the 1890s. After that, Maxwell's equations...
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named after the German physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz in 1961. Prior to that, this crater was known as Crater 200. Hertz, Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature...
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Heinrich Hertz. Hertz converted from Judaism to Lutheranism upon marrying Anna Elisabeth Pfefferkorn, the daughter of a Lutheran minister. "Heinrich Hertz...
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Radio wave (redirect from Hertz waves)
electromagnetic waves of very short wavelength. In 1887, German physicist Heinrich Hertz demonstrated the reality of Maxwell's electromagnetic waves by experimentally...
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phenomenon of radio waves nine years before they were proven to exist by Heinrich Hertz in 1888. In 1879 while working in London Hughes discovered that a bad...
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and Gustav Hertz, nephew of Heinrich Hertz; for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom, Franck and Hertz were awarded...
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Hertzian cone (category Heinrich Hertz)
reduction. This phenomenon is named after the German physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, who first described this type of wave-front propagation through...
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critic Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), German poet Heinrich von Herford (c. 1300–1370), Dominican friar, historian, and theologian Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894)...
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Field and demonstrated the fact that light is an electromagnetic wave. Heinrich Hertz published papers in 1887 and 1888 experimentally confirming this fact...
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holonomy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Holonomic (introduced by Heinrich Hertz in 1894 from the Greek ὅλος meaning "whole", "entire" and νόμος meaning...
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