HERTZ, HEINRICH RUDOLPH

HERTZ, HEINRICH RUDOLPH. – German physicist, born in Hamburg on 22 February 1857, died in Bonn on 1 January 1894. He studied in Munich and was a pupil of H. von Helmholtz. In 1880 he obtained his doctorate at the Physical Institute of Berlin, where he immediately became an assistant. In 1883 he moved to Kiel, where he began the studies that led him to the experimental confirmation of Maxwell’s electromagnetic theory, definitively demonstrating those waves (v.) that bear his name and that, with G. Marconi, opened the field of wireless telegraphy.