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Which scientist demonstrated that light is the visible component of a larger spectrum of electromagnetic waves

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Its ”Heinrich Hertz”

In 1887 Heinrich Hertz demonstrated the existence of the waves predicted by Maxwell by producing radio waves in his laboratory. It took a bit longer for scientists to discover the higher-energy (shorter wavelength) light in the electromagnetic spectrum.
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