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OCR: 1857 On February 22 Hertz is born 111 Haml burg, Germany into pros perous family 1875 Goes to Frankfurt, Germany, to acquire exper ience in engi ineering 1880 Graduates from the University of Berlin, Germany where he studies under Hermann von Helmholtz. (1821 94 mat thematician physicist and physiologist Continues to work Helmholtz's assistan for three years, studying known electrical phenomena 1883 Attends the University of Kiel, Germany. Because the laboratory lacks the equi pment for him to conduct the expei riments he has in mind, he spends his time studying existing electromagnetic theories 1885 At age 28 Hertz made professor of physics at the Technical College IT Karlsruhe, Germany Here he puts together the equipment needed to investigate the theories of James Clerk Maxwell (1831 79) ...