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☆Heinrich Rudolf Hertz★

☆Heinrich Rudolf Hertz★. By: Tina. Birth & Death. Birth: February 22, 1857 Birthplace: Hamburg, German Confederation Death: January 1, 1894 Death place: Bonn, Germany Empire. Family. Hertz was the oldest child born into a wealthy, educated family of successors.

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☆Heinrich Rudolf Hertz★

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  1. ☆Heinrich Rudolf Hertz★ By: Tina

  2. Birth & Death • Birth: February 22, 1857 • Birthplace: Hamburg, German Confederation • Death: January 1, 1894 • Death place: Bonn, Germany Empire

  3. Family • Hertz was the oldest child born into a wealthy, educated family of successors. • Father: David Gustav Hertz – first a writer, then a senator • Mother: the former Anna Elisabeth Pfefferkorn • 3 younger brothers and 1 younger sister

  4. Branch of Science • Heinrich Hertz was famous in the Physics and Electric Engineering. Electric Engineering Physics

  5. What Hertz is Famous for • Heinrich Hertz was an inventor. • James Clerk Maxwell, an English physicist, formulated the electromagnetic theory. • Numerous people have tried the prove the theory, and Hertz was the first to do it. • “Hertz proved that electricity travels in waves at the speed of light and that these waves possessed many of the same properties of light waves themselves. Between 1885 and 1889, Hertz was the first person to broadcast radio waves and also prove that light was a form of electromagnetic radiation.” from http://www.funtrivia.com/en/subtopics/Oh-That-Hertz-154977.html

  6. Inventions • Dipole Antenna • Radar • Electromagnetic radiation • Wireless telegraphy Dipole Antenna Electromagnetic Radiation Radar

  7. One of His Inventions – Generator for Electromagnetic Waves

  8. Education • Humboldt University of Berlin • Technical University of Munich • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Technical University of Munich Humboldt University of Berlin

  9. Hertz was a pupil of… • Hermann von Helmholtz – Hertz studied for a few more years with Helmholtz even after he received his doctorate degree magna cum laude in 1880. • Gustav Kirchhoff

  10. Where He Has Taught • University of Kiel – 1883 – Hertz had a position of lecturer of theoretical physics. • Karlsruhe Polytechnic – 1885 – Here, Hertz had was a full professor and made most of his important experiments. • University of Bonn – 1889 – Hertz was a professor of physics.

  11. Places Lived In • Hamburg, Germany • Dresden, Germany • Munich, Germany • Berlin, Germany • Bonn, Germany • Kiel, Germany • Karlsruhe, Germany

  12. Impacts on the World • Heinrich Hertz made it possible for later inventors to make radios, televisions, cell phones, and numerous other objects that require electricity. • Scientific names such as the frequency unit and the SI unit; hertz (Hz), kilohertz (kHz), and megahertz (MHz) were named after Heinrich Hertz. • A crater on the moon was named in his honor. • In Japan, he is honored by being a member in the Order of the Scared Treasure. • His picture has appeared on many countries’ post stamps. Especially in German during World War II. • On February 22, 2012 (Hertz’s birthday in 2012, Google made a Google Doodle about his life’s work for him.

  13. Stamp

  14. Books Written • UntersuchungenUeber Die AusbreitungDerElektrischen Kraft (Investigations on the Propagation of Electrical Energy) • One of the most important works of science • His first book

  15. Bibliography • "Heinrich Hertz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Sept. 2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Hertz • "Great Scientist." Buzzle. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Sept. 2012. http://www.buzzle.com/articles/great-scientists.html • "Heinrich Hertz education." Google. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Sept. 2012. https://www.google.com/#hl=en&newwindow=1&biw=1440&bih=779&sclient=psy-ab&q=Heinrich+Hertz+education&oq=Heinrich+Hertz+education&gs_l=hp.3..0i30j0i8i30.818280.821752.1.822848.10.10.0.0.0.0.321.1711.0j8j1j1.10.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.x4iksp0JVno&pbx=1&fp=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&cad=b • "Inventor Heinrich Hertz." The Great Idea Finder - Celebrating the Spirit of Innovation . N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Sept. 2012. http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/hertz.htm • "Heinrich Hertz." NNDB: Tracking the entire world. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Sept. 2012. http://www.nndb.com/people/419/000072203/ • "Oh, That Hertz." Fun Trivia H: History of Science. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Sept. 2012. http://www.funtrivia.com/en/subtopics/Oh-That-Hertz-154977.html • "Hertz_Heinrich biography." MacTutor History of Mathematics. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Sept. 2012. http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Hertz_Heinrich.html • "Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics and You - Timeline - Heinrich Rudolph Hertz." Molecular Expressions: Images from the Microscope. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Sept. 2012. http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/timeline/people/hertz.html • "Hertz." Antique Wireless And Scientific Instruments. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Sept. 2012. http://www.sparkmuseum.com/BOOK_HERTZ.HTM • "Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894) - GHN: IEEE Global History Network." IEEE Global History Network - GHN: IEEE Global History Network. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Sept. 2012. http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Heinrich_Hertz_(1857-1894) • "Heinrich Hertz inventions." Google. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Sept. 2012. https://www.google.com/#hl=en&newwindow=1&sclient=psy-ab&q=Heinrich+Hertz+inventions&oq=Heinrich+Hertz+inventions&gs_l=hp.3..0j0i8i30l2.1566.1566.4.1746.1.1.0.0.0.0.142.142.0j1.1.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.zLFFZ9FPwBQ&pbx=1&fp=1&biw=1440&bih=779&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&cad=b

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  17. FIN~THE END Thank you for watching~!!

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