Vicki McClure Davidson | February 22, 2012
An unusual animated Google doodle today, February 22, 2012, of a colorful, undulating wave on a graph honors German physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz’s 155th birthday. The scientific term “hertz” comes from the surname of physicist Hertz, born February 22, 1857 in Hamburg, German Confederation — he was the first to conclusively prove the existence [...]
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