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Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (/ h ɜːr t s / HURTS; German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç hɛʁts]; [1] [2] 22 February 1857 – 1 January 1894) was a German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves predicted by James Clerk Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism.
The final form of Maxwell's equations was published in 1865 A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field, [8] in which the theory is formulated in strictly mathematical form. In 1873, Maxwell published A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism as a summary of his work on electromagnetism. In summary, Maxwell's equations successfully unified ...
The Maxwellians is a book by Bruce J. Hunt, published in 1991 by Cornell University Press; a paperback edition appeared in 1994, and the book was reissued in 2005.It chronicles the development of electromagnetic theory in the years after the publication of A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell.
Hertz published his work in a book titled: Electric waves: being researches on the propagation of electric action with finite velocity through space. [134] The discovery of electromagnetic waves in space led to the development of radio in the closing years of the 19th century.
Vilhelm Bjerknes became assistant to Heinrich Hertz in Bonn 1890–1891 and made substantial contributions to Hertz' work on electromagnetic resonance. He succeeded in giving the explanation of the phenomenon called "multiple resonance," discovered by Sarasin and De la Rive.
The "Maxwell–Hertz" or "Heaviside–Hertz" equations subsequently formed an important basis for the further development of electrodynamics, and Heaviside's notation is still used today. Other important contributions to Maxwell's theory were made by George FitzGerald, Joseph John Thomson, John Henry Poynting, Hendrik Lorentz, and Joseph Larmor.
1989 – The Rise of the Wave Theory of Light: Optical Theory and Experiment in the Early Nineteenth Century; 1993 – Einstein Papers Project Vol. 3 (one of nine contributing editors) 1994 – The Creation of Scientific Effects: Heinrich Hertz and electric waves; 1995 – Scientific Practice: Theories and Stories of Doing Physics (editor)
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