Heinrich Hertz
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz ( hurts; German: [hɛʁts] ; 22 February 1857 – 1 January 1894) was a German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves proposed by James Clerk Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism. == Biography == Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was born on 22 February 1857 in Hamburg, the son of Gustav Ferdinand Hertz, a lawyer and politician, and Anna Elisabeth Pfefferkorn.