The communications satellite was named after German physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz. Born on 22 February 1857 in Hamburg, Hertz primarily focused on research into electromagnetic waves. In 1886, he ...

In the late 1880s, German physicist Heinrich Hertz tested Maxwell's theory. He succeeded in producing electromagnetic waves, and confirmed Maxwell's prediction about their speed. Not long after ...

All forms of electromagnetic ... the crest of one wave to the crest of the next wave), by frequency (the number of wave cycles that pass by in a given period, measured in Hertz, which stands ...