Google Doodle celebrates Heinrich Rudolf Hertz’s 155th birthday with an animated wave!

By Scientist

The Google logo on its home page has been replaced with an animated image of waves on a graph to mark the 155th birthday of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, the legendary German physicist known for his groundbreaking work on electromagnetic waves. The animated waves shown in the Google doodle are in the search engine’s trademark colours; blue, red, yellow and green.

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Google Doodle celebrates Heinrich Rudolf Hertz’s 155th birthday with an animated wave!

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