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||Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (b. 22 February 1857) was a German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves theorized by James Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic theory of light. The unit of frequency — cycle per second — was named the "hertz" in his honor.
||Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (b. 22 February 1857) was a German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves theorized by James Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic theory of light. The unit of frequency — cycle per second — was named the "hertz" in his honor.
||Sir Charles Lyell (d. 22 February 1875) was a Scottish geologist who popularized the revolutionary work of James Hutton. He wrote ''Principles of Geology'', which presented uniformitarianism–the idea that the Earth was shaped by the same scientific processes still in operation today–to the broad general public.


||1879 – Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Danish chemist and academic (d. 1947)
||1879 – Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Danish chemist and academic (d. 1947)

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