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PHYSICIST

Heinrich Hertz

1857 - 1894

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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

Among physicists, Heinrich Hertz ranks 24 out of 717Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Heinrich Hertz ranks 4Before 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 2Before 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.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Hertz ranks 69 out of 6,142Before 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).

Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Heinrich Hertz ranks 6Before 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).