Heinrich Hertz, inventor of radio waves
It is difficult to overestimate the contribution that the great scientist made to the development of science. Although Heinrich Hertz lived a short life, his love of science and perseverance changed the world around us for the better.After graduation, Henry travels to Berlin, where he becomes an assistant in the laboratory of the then most famous German physicist German Helmholtz. It was this famous scientist who noticed the talent of the young man, and under his leadership Hertz defended his thesis and became an outstanding specialist in this field.
In 1880, Heinrich Hertz received his doctorate.After some time, he built a device that would later be called the Hertz radio transmitter. Studying unknown waves, he realized that they behave exactly like light. Hertz managed to calculate their speed, and it coincided with the speed of light. A famous scientist was able to prove that light is one of the options for electromagnetic radiation. He described this in his article “On the Rays of Electric Force”. Today, the publication date of this article is considered the date of discovery of electromagnetic waves.In the last years of his life, Hertz headed the department of physics at the University of Bonn.
In 1892, doctors diagnosed him with a blood infection. The scientist underwent several operations, and died at the age of 36. His wife Elizabeth was no longer married. His two daughters Joanna and Matilda did not create families, so the scientist did not have direct descendants. However, his nephew Gustav Ludwig Hertz, following the example of his uncle, also became a famous physicist and even received the Nobel Prize.
Henry Hertz made many important discoveries not only in physics, but also in mechanics, electrodynamics, and even meteorology.
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