Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Wave Doodle for Heinrich Rudolf Hertz

Before now little more than a week the search giant Google has unveiled its Graphics for Valentine's Day. Today, the search engine presents a wave-Doodle in honor of the German physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz. On display here is a wave that meanders emblematic of the individual letters of the Google logo. But let us proceed to the compulsory introduction of the biography.
155th Birthday of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz

Google Doodle the 155th Birthday of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, Heinrich Hertz was born on 22 Born in Hamburg in February 1857 as the first of five children of Gustav Ferdinand Hertz, lawyers and Anna Elisabeth Pfefferkorn, the daughter of a doctor's garrison. In 1886 he married Elizabeth Doll with whom he had two daughters.

Hertz graduated from school in Hamburg, after which he then applied in a design office in Frankfurt am Main to study engineering. Later he began after a year of military service at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) to study mathematics and physics. But shortly thereafter he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelm University in Berlin.

Hertz died at a young age after two years of suffering from Wegener's granulomatosis with only 36 years (1 January 1894 in Bonn).

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