Dictionary Check: hertz

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Scrabble 17 points
Words with Friends 16 points

Definition

noun

German physicist who was the first to produce electromagnetic waves artificially (1857-1894)

noun

the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second (named for Heinrich Rudolph Hertz)

noun

German physicist who with James Franck proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Bohr (1887-1975)

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