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Hertz   /hɛrts/  /hərts/   Listen
Hertz

noun
1.
The unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second.  Synonyms: cps, cycle, cycle per second, cycles/second, Hz.
2.
German physicist who was the first to produce electromagnetic waves artificially (1857-1894).  Synonyms: Heinrich Hertz, Heinrich Rudolph Hertz.
3.
German physicist who with James Franck proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Bohr (1887-1975).  Synonyms: Gustav Hertz, Gustav Ludwig Hertz.



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"Hertz" Quotes from Famous Books



... nature-philosophy. Only a few years ago the cosmic ether was to the majority of scientists an imponderable something, of which, strictly speaking, absolutely nothing was known, and which could be admitted provisionally only as a precarious working hypothesis. All this was changed when Heinrich Hertz (1888) demonstrated the nature of electrical energy, by his beautiful experiments establishing the conjecture of Faraday that light and heat, electricity and magnetism, are closely related phenomena of one single set of forces, and depend on transverse vibrations of the ether. Light itself—whatever ...
— Monism as Connecting Religion and Science • Ernst Haeckel



Words linked to "Hertz" :   rate, kilocycle per second, nuclear physicist, kHz, kc, Heinrich Rudolph Hertz, kilocycle, physicist



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