“This is the original laboratory, where Heinrich Hertz did this experiment,” said Krebs, as we entered the sunlit room, now furnished with modern seats and tables. When Hertz got to Karlsruhe, student ...

1857: Heinrich Rudolf Hertz is born. The physicist will make key discoveries about the transmission of electromagnetic waves and eventually give his name to a pervasive measurement of the ...

The wave logo represents electromagnetic waves. Hertz was the first to prove they indeed exist. He proved they exist in 1887 when he ran an experiment to measure the waves and their distance traveled.

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz -- who, like Van Gogh and Mozart, was a rare genius not fully appreciated during his lifetime -- is honored with a Google Doodle today, his 155th birthday.

Heinrich Hertz found his purpose in the invisible. ... In an experiment, Hertz passed rays through an electric field inside a cathode ray tube and demonstrated that they could pass through some ...

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz gets a Google Doodle for his 155th birthday. ... After an experiment that helped establish the photoelectric effect, he commented that “it’s of no use whatsoever. ...

In 1886, Heinrich Hertz sent a spark arcing across a gap separating zinc spheres attached to one-metre-long pieces of copper wire 1 . The ... From Hertz's experiment, ...

Heinrich Hertz found his purpose in the invisible. Hertz—who originally wanted to study the more tangible, practical field of civil engineering—was eventually drawn to the theories of James ...