the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second
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German physicist who was the first to produce electromagnetic waves artificially (1857-1894)
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German physicist who with James Franck proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Bohr (1887-1975)
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Hertz \Hertz\, n. [from the German physicist Heinrich Hertz.] a unit of frequency equal to one cycle per second; it is abbreviated Hz. It is commonly used to specify the frequency of radio waves, and also the clock frequencies in digital computers. For these applications, kilohertz and megahertz are the most commonly used units, derived from hertz. [PJC]
By the time Giuseppi Verdi was writing his operas in the mid-19th century, A had sharpened to 435 hertz.