Heinrich Hertz

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Heinrich Rudolf Hertz ( hurts; German: [hɛʁts] ; 22 February 1857 – 1 January 1894) was a German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves proposed by James Clerk Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism.

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