Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857-1894)

A Collection of Articles and Addresses

Joseph F. Mulligan, Joseph F. Mulligan

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9780429664991
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

This book, first available in 1994, was published to commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of Heinrich Hertz's death at the terribly young age of thirty-six. The introductory biography together with eleven papers by Hertz and seven about him are intended to highlight the importance of Hertz's contributions to physics and at the same time to serve the needs of anyone interested in doing research on this highly gifted scientist.

Index

Abitur, 6–7

Action-at-a-distance theories, 128

and Faraday, 310–12

and FitzGerald, 366

and gravitational forces, 286, 314n

and Helmholtz, 311–12, 314

and Hertz, 80, 181–82, 286, 314n

and Maxwell, 311

and unity of electric force, 394

Adiabatic expansion of damp air, 107, 391

Aether. See Ether.

Akins, Zoë, 381

Althoff, Friedrich (1839–1908)

and Hertz’s call to Bonn, 47

and Hertz’s research in Bonn, 52

interactions of, with Hertz, 25n, 25–26, 47–48

and physics in German universities, 25

recipient of honorary degree from Harvard, 25n

Ampère, André Marie (1775–1836)

force law of, 127–28

and unity of magnetic force, 128

Annalen der Physik und Chemie

changing editors of, 14n

changing titles of, 14n

Archimedes, 327

Arons, Leo (1860–1919), 389

Asphalt prism, 36, 159

Atoms

Hertz on existence of, 340–41

Kirchhoff on, 341

Baden-Baden, 74

Berlin, 12–13

Hertz’s military service in, 10

Hertz’s studies and research in, 13–18

population of, 13

status in Germany, 12–13

Berlin Academy of Sciences, 44

1879 prize-problem of, 14–15, 366

Hertz elected to membership in, 49, 293–95

Berlin Physical Society

M. Planck’s address to, 383–403

Berlin University

foundation of, 13

Hertz’s decision to leave, 18

Hertz’s offer of professorship at, 47

Hertz’s studies at, 13–18

history of, 13

Physics Institute of, 13

Bezold, W...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• A Note about References
• Chronology of Heinrich Hertz’s Life
• Introductory Biography: Joseph F. Mulligan
• I. Hertz’s Childhood and Young Manhood (1857-1878): Hamburg, Frankfurt, and Munich
• II. Berlin (1878-1883): Advanced Studies in Physics, Friedrich-Wilhelm University
• III. Kiel University (1883-1885): Physics Instructor (Privatdozent)
• IV. Karlsruhe (1885-1889): Professor of Physics, Technische Hochschule
• V. Bonn University (1889-1894): Professor of Physics
• VI. Heinrich Hertz’s Importance in the History of Physics
• Bibliography
• Index