Hertz

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NOUN

Hz, cycle per second, cycles/second, cps, cycle

the unit of frequency

Heinrich Hertz, Heinrich Rudolph Hertz

German physicist who was the first to produce electromagnetic waves artificially (1857-1894)

Gustav Hertz, Gustav Ludwig Hertz

German physicist who with James Franck proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Bohr (1887-1975)

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