1857 - 1894
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz ( HURTS; German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈhɛʁts]; 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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich Hertz has received more than 2,015,945 page views. His biography is available in 93 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 89 in 2019). Heinrich Hertz is the 24th most popular physicist (down from 22nd in 2019), the 69th most popular biography from Germany (down from 58th in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Physicist.
Heinrich Hertz is most famous for proving the existence of electromagnetic waves. He was able to do this by creating a device that could produce and detect electromagnetic waves.
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Among physicists, Heinrich Hertz ranks 24 out of 717. Before him are Georg Ohm, Werner Heisenberg, Henri Becquerel, Erwin Schrödinger, Christiaan Huygens, and Enrico Fermi. After him are Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, Luigi Galvani, Daniel Bernoulli, Richard Feynman, Hendrik Lorentz, and Ibn al-Haytham.
1789 - 1854
HPI: 79.15
Rank: 18
1901 - 1976
HPI: 78.94
Rank: 19
1852 - 1908
HPI: 78.87
Rank: 20
1887 - 1961
HPI: 78.79
Rank: 21
1629 - 1695
HPI: 77.71
Rank: 22
1901 - 1954
HPI: 77.48
Rank: 23
1857 - 1894
HPI: 77.14
Rank: 24
1736 - 1806
HPI: 77.05
Rank: 25
1737 - 1798
HPI: 76.66
Rank: 26
1700 - 1782
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 27
1918 - 1988
HPI: 75.46
Rank: 28
1853 - 1928
HPI: 74.96
Rank: 29
965 - 1039
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 30
Among people born in 1857, Heinrich Hertz ranks 4. Before him are Pope Pius XI, Ferdinand de Saussure, and Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell. After him are Clara Zetkin, Joseph Conrad, Edward Elgar, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, Henrik Pontoppidan, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, and William Howard Taft. Among people deceased in 1894, Heinrich Hertz ranks 2. Before him is Alexander III of Russia. After him are Robert Louis Stevenson, Hermann von Helmholtz, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Adolphe Sax, Anton Rubinstein, Lajos Kossuth, Gustave Caillebotte, Marie François Sadi Carnot, Francis II of the Two Sicilies, and Pafnuty Chebyshev.
1857 - 1939
HPI: 78.59
Rank: 1
1857 - 1913
HPI: 78.58
Rank: 2
1857 - 1941
HPI: 77.50
Rank: 3
1857 - 1894
HPI: 77.14
Rank: 4
1857 - 1933
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 5
1857 - 1924
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 6
1857 - 1934
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 7
1857 - 1919
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 8
1857 - 1944
HPI: 72.67
Rank: 9
1857 - 1943
HPI: 70.82
Rank: 10
1857 - 1935
HPI: 70.34
Rank: 11
1857 - 1930
HPI: 70.30
Rank: 12
1845 - 1894
HPI: 77.71
Rank: 1
1857 - 1894
HPI: 77.14
Rank: 2
1850 - 1894
HPI: 75.37
Rank: 3
1821 - 1894
HPI: 72.07
Rank: 4
1805 - 1894
HPI: 70.39
Rank: 5
1814 - 1894
HPI: 68.57
Rank: 6
1829 - 1894
HPI: 67.26
Rank: 7
1802 - 1894
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 8
1848 - 1894
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 9
1837 - 1894
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 10
1836 - 1894
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 11
1821 - 1894
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 12
Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Hertz ranks 69 out of 6,142. Before him are Ludwig Feuerbach (1804), Martin Bormann (1900), Konrad Adenauer (1876), Erich Fromm (1900), Erich von Manstein (1887), and Karl Lagerfeld (1933). After him are Helmut Kohl (1930), Albert, Prince Consort (1819), Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762), Franz Beckenbauer (1945), Karl Jaspers (1883), and Caspar David Friedrich (1774).
1804 - 1872
HPI: 77.28
Rank: 63
1900 - 1945
HPI: 77.28
Rank: 64
1876 - 1967
HPI: 77.27
Rank: 65
1900 - 1980
HPI: 77.25
Rank: 66
1887 - 1973
HPI: 77.23
Rank: 67
1933 - 2019
HPI: 77.15
Rank: 68
1857 - 1894
HPI: 77.14
Rank: 69
1930 - 2017
HPI: 77.06
Rank: 70
1819 - 1861
HPI: 77.02
Rank: 71
1762 - 1814
HPI: 76.97
Rank: 72
1945 - 2024
HPI: 76.95
Rank: 73
1883 - 1969
HPI: 76.82
Rank: 74
1774 - 1840
HPI: 76.82
Rank: 75
Among physicists born in Germany, Heinrich Hertz ranks 6. Before him are Albert Einstein (1879), Wilhelm Röntgen (1845), Max Planck (1858), Georg Ohm (1789), and Werner Heisenberg (1901). After him are Hermann von Helmholtz (1821), Max Born (1882), Otto von Guericke (1602), Max von Laue (1879), Carl Zeiss (1816), and Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804).
1879 - 1955
HPI: 93.06
Rank: 1
1845 - 1923
HPI: 83.44
Rank: 2
1858 - 1947
HPI: 81.76
Rank: 3
1789 - 1854
HPI: 79.15
Rank: 4
1901 - 1976
HPI: 78.94
Rank: 5
1857 - 1894
HPI: 77.14
Rank: 6
1821 - 1894
HPI: 72.07
Rank: 7
1882 - 1970
HPI: 71.56
Rank: 8
1602 - 1686
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 9
1879 - 1960
HPI: 69.58
Rank: 10
1816 - 1888
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 11
1804 - 1891
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 12