1857: Heinrich Rudolf Hertz is born. The physicist will make key discoveries about the transmission of electromagnetic waves and eventually give his name to a pervasive measurement of the electronic ...

Physics fans are a lot like surfers. Both think waves are really fun. For surfers, it’s all about having a good time. For physicists, it’s about understanding some of nature’s most important physical ...

In honor of Heinrich Hertz’s birthday, Google put up a doodle on its search page today honoring the German physicist whose research led to the wireless telegraph, radio, radar, and broadcast TV. Today ...

Google's latest homepage doodle has gone live today, celebrating Germany physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, whose experiments with electromagnetic waves paved the way to radio, television and more. Born ...

Head to the Google homepage today and you'll see waves moving on a graph. That's because today is the birthday of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, the German physicist who carried out pioneering work on ...

UP to the present date, short electromagnetic waves have been generated only by the method of the Hertz vibrator. This method offers very serious difficulties when we try to produce electromagnetic ...