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Heinrich Rudolph Hertz

Biography

Dr. phil. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 1880

Dissertation: Über die Induction in rotirenden Kugeln

Mathematics Subject Classification: 78—Optics, electromagnetic theory

Advisor: Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz

Students:
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Name	School	Year	Descendants
Vilhelm Bjerknes	Technische Universität Karlsruhe	1890	58
Jozef Ritter von Geitler-Armingen	Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn	1893	19

According to our current on-line database, Heinrich Hertz has 2 students and 79 descendants.
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