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| | Heinrich Rudolf Hertz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Hertz was born in Hamburg, Germany, to Gustav Ferdinand Hertz, whose father converted from Judaism to Lutheranism and married into a Lutheran family, and Anna Elisabeth Pfefferkorn, herself a Lutheran. |
 | | Hertz had always had a deep interest in meteorology probably derived from his contacts with Willhelm von Bezold (he was Hertz's professor in a laboratory course at the Munich Polytechnic in the summer of 1878). |
 | | Hertz, however, did not contribute much to the field himself except for some early articles as an assistant to Helmholtz in Berlin, including research on the evaporation of liquids, a new kind of hygrometer, and a graphical means of determining the properties of moist air when subjected to adiabatic changes. |
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