Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857-1894) was a German physicist. He was the first to prove the existence of the electromagnetic waves. The waves were predicted in James Clerk Maxwell’s equations of electromagnetism. The unit of frequency, cycle per second, was named “hertz” in Hertz’s honor.Hertz T-shirt on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKLX9ZGV
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Joseph Gay-Lussac
Joseph Gay-Lussac (1778-1850) was a French chemist and physicist. He pioneered investigations into the behavior of gases, established new techniques for analysis, and made notable advances in applied chemistry. The Gay-Lussac’s Law states that the pressure of a given mass of gas varies directly with the absolute temperature of the gas, when the volume is …