Hertz (disambiguation)

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Hertz may refer to:

• Hertz, the SI unit of frequency (cycles per second)
  • 2600 hertz, the frequency that AT&T formerly put as a steady signal on any long-distance telephone line that was not currently in use
• Hertz (crater), a lunar crater that lies on the far side of the Moon
• Hertz horn, a self-contained explosive device placed in water to destroy ships or submarines
• Hertz contact stress, a description of the stress within mating parts

• Hertz Foundation, an American non-profit organization that awards fellowships to Ph.D. students
• Hertz Corporation, a rent-a-car / equipmental rental company
• Hertz doctrine, a set of foreign policy guidelines first unveiled by President George W. Bush in 2002
• Franck-Hertz experiment,
• Hertz Bay Hill Classic,
• Heinrich-Hertz-Turm, a radio telecommunication tower and a famous landmark of Hamburg
• Heinrich Hertz Submillimeter Telescope
• Hertzian cone, a cone of force that propagates through a brittle, amorphous or cryptocrystalline solid material from a point of impact
• Fort Hertz, a remote British Military outpost in North Eastern Burma
• Hertz, a surname:
  • Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857-1894), physicist, German radio pioneer
  • Alfred Hertz (1872-1942), conductor
  • Arne Hertz, a famous Swedish co-driver in motor rallying
  • Eleonora Hertz Poznanski, see also Izrael Poznański
  • Gustav Hertz (1887-1975), German Nobel laureate physicist (Jewish Christian)
  • Carl Hellmuth Hertz, medical researcher, son of Gustav Hertz
  • Henrik Hertz (born Heymann Hertz), Danish playwright, poet
  • John Hertz (fan) - Hugo Awardnominee
  • John D. Hertz, founder of Yellow Cab, Hertz car rental, racehorse breeder
  • Dr. Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz, Hungary-born chief Rabbi of British Empire
  • Martin Hertz, musician (bassist)
  • Rabbi Naftali Hertz Ben Ya’acov Elchanon
    

    

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  • Noreena Hertz, English economist
  • Robert Hertz (1881-1915), French sociologist
  • Suzanne Hertz, the science teacher in Code Lyoko
  • Wilhelm Ritter von Hertz (1835-1902), writer, Germanist