Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Google wishes Heinrich Hertz a “Happy Birthday”

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Google in it’s Doodle for 22Feb wishes Happy Birthday to Heinrich Hertz, a renowned German Physicist who is well known for proving the existence of electromagnetic waves by engineering instruments.

 

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The Google logo takes the form of electromagnetic waves (in Google colours - blue, red, yellow and green) to pay tribute to German physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz on his 155th birth anniversary. Hertz was born at Hamburg on February 22, 1857.

Hertz was the first to broadcast and receive radio waves. His pioneering work laid the way for the development of radio, television and radar.

The unit of frequency of a radio wave - one cycle per second - is named the hertz, in honour of Heinrich Hertz.

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