Ten fun facts about Heinrich Hertz
Fact 1
The scientific unity for frequency is named "hertz" to give honor to Heinrich.
Fact 2
In 1880, Hertz received his PhD from the University of Berlin.
Fact 3
A crater on the moon is also named after him.
Fact 4He died at age 36. The cause of his death was Wegener's granulomatosis.
Fact 5The Nazis removed his portrait from the Hamburg City Hall because of his Jewish ancestry, although he was converted to Lutheranism in 1834.
Fact 6His proof that there were electromagnetic waves was the base of the development of telegraphy, radios and television.
Fact 7He had an interest in meteorology but did not do any further experiments or research on it. He contributed few articles as an assistant to Helmholtz.
Fact 8In 1886 he married and had two daughters with Elisabeth Doll. His daughters never married, so there are no descendants of Heinrich Hertz.
Fact 9He was born into a very cultured, well off family. They were considered to be a Hanseatic family.
Fact 10At the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, a memorial of Hertz stands, recognizing his discovery of electromagnetic waves.
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