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Who discovered microwave radiation?

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James Clerk Maxwell's equations of electromagnetic radiation, published in 1864, predicted the existence of microwaves. But it was not until 1888 that Heinrich Hertz proved their existence by building a device that produced and detected microwave radiation.

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Nobody, microwave radiation is a natural phenomena and part of electromagnetic radiation (higher in frequency than UHF and lower in frequency than IR).

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Radio waves were discovered by Heinrich Hertz in 1888. Hertz was a German physicist who was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1857.

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The existence of radio waves was predicted by James Clerk Maxwell in 1864 from his equations.

They were then proved to exist experimentally.

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