Hertz, HE IN RICH

RUDOLF, 1857-1894. Prof. of Physics at Bonn 1889; best known through his magnificent series of researches on electrical waves. His paper on Rapid Electric Oscillations, 1887, was the first of this series of investigation which appeared in Wiedemann's Annalen, 1887-90. In these he showed that electromagnetic actions are propagated with finite speed through space.