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News of different Henry Hertz and his discovery by Henry Hertz and his opening on February 22 years ago, on February 22, in the city of Hamburg, Heinrich Rudolf Herz was born - a German physicist who brought humanity to the possibility of transmitting information and communicating through distances. Already at the age of 23, having graduated from the University of Berlin, Henry Herz became a doctor of philosophy, defending his diploma with honors where he considered the theory of induction.

Then, having become an assistant professor, he had lectured to students of the University of Kil from a year, for a year he was already a professor of physics of the Technical University in Karlsruhe, and then worked as a professor of physics of the University in Bonn. Based on the work of D. Maxwell, in which the influence of electromagnetic oscillations on the frequency and speed of the emitted waves was proved, and theoretically confirmed that the speed of radio waves coincides with the speed of light, Henry Hertz in practice proved the existence of electromagnetic waves.

The scientist collected the simplest devices for conducting research, which later named him and are used for experiments so far: the vibrator Hertz is a radio transmitter, a resonator - a spark radio receiver. It happened in the year. During the experiments, the scientist discovers that the energy of the magnetic and electric field is transmitted through the air from the radio transmitter to the radio receiver by wires.

Scientific evidence was obtained that electromagnetic and light waves have identical properties. A big breakthrough in the science of that time! The conclusions and evidence of Henry Hertz were set forth in two articles: “On very fast electrical fluctuations” and “On reflection, refraction, moving electrodynamic waves in the air”. But the physicist did not see the further development of his conclusions in this direction.

Then he simply did not understand that he made an invaluable contribution to the creation of a wireless telegraph, radio and television, that is, in the development of the technological progress of mankind. Also in gg. Herz Herz first observed and described an external photo effect. Already in the 20th century, relying on the experiments of G. Hertz, the large German theoretic physicist Albert Einstein further developed the theory of radiation and created a quantum theory of the photo effect.

The Russian inventor A. Popov perpetuated the name of a brilliant physicist in the year, passing on wireless telegraph Latin letters - “Heinrich Hertz”. An article about this event has been published on the site. Henry Hertz lived only 36 years, but his important discovery is forever inscribed in the history of science and technology. The name of the German physicist in the year named the unit of measure, which later entered the world measuring system for determining the frequency - HZ, Hz.