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Wednesday 22 February 2012

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz's 155 Birthday

Today 22nd of February 2012. Heinrich Rudolf Hertz's 155th Birthday.

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz  was born on February 22, 1857, he was a German physicist who clarified and expanded the electromagnetic theory of light that had been put forth by Maxwell. He was the first to satisfactorily demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic waves by building an apparatus to produce and detect radio waves.

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