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Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (22 February 1857 – 1 January 1894) was a German physicist who first showed the existence of the electromagnetic waves theorized by James Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic theory of light. The unit of frequency — cycle per second — was named the "hertz" in his honour.
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