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Alexander Stepanovich Popov

1859 - 1906

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Alexander Stepanovich Popov (sometimes spelled Popoff; Russian: Александр Степанович Попов; March 16 [O.S. March 4] 1859 – January 13 [O.S. December 31, 1905] 1906) was a Russian physicist who was one of the first people to invent a radio receiving device. Popov's work as a teacher at a Russian naval school led him to explore high-frequency electrical phenomena. On 7 May 1895, he presented a paper on a wireless lightning detector he had built that worked via using a coherer to detect radio noise from lightning strikes. This day is celebrated today in Russia as Radio Day. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Stepanovich Popov is the 100th most popular inventor (down from 87th in 2019), the 350th most popular biography from Russia (down from 294th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Russian Inventor.

Alexander Stepanovich Popov is most famous for inventing the radio.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Alexander Stepanovich Popov ranks 100 out of 426. Before him are Johann Maria Farina, Sakichi Toyoda, Leo Fender, Daniel Swarovski, John Harrison, and Momofuku Ando. After him are Richard Arkwright, Elisha Otis, Charles-Émile Reynaud, Kōnosuke Matsushita, Henry Bessemer, and Étienne-Jules Marey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Alexander Stepanovich Popov ranks 24. Before him are George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Jerome K. Jerome, Pierre Janet, Hugo Junkers, Alexander Samsonov, and Anna Ancher. After him are Venustiano Carranza, Francisco Ferrer, Bertha Pappenheim, Peter Altenberg, Diana Abgar, and George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.. Among people deceased in 1906, Alexander Stepanovich Popov ranks 13. Before him are Archduke Otto of Austria, Raja Ravi Varma, Samuel Pierpont Langley, Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, Susan B. Anthony, and Georgy Gapon. After him are Anton Arensky, Alexander Kielland, Bartolomé Mitre, Eugène Carrière, Jules Breton, and Princess Mathilde of Bavaria.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Stepanovich Popov ranks 350 out of 3,761. Before him are Michael Chekhov (1891), George Ostrogorsky (1902), Fyodor Tyutchev (1803), Avvakum (1620), Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia (1832), and Andrei Konchalovsky (1937). After him are Edith Södergran (1892), Oleg Gordievsky (1938), Dmitry Ustinov (1908), Lovis Corinth (1858), Yevdokiya Lopukhina (1669), and Leonid Govorov (1897).

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Among INVENTORS In Russia

Among inventors born in Russia, Alexander Stepanovich Popov ranks 3. Before him are Léon Theremin (1896), and Oleg Antonov (1906). After him are Vladimir K. Zworykin (1888), Nikolai Kardashev (1932), Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (1862), Lucien Olivier (1838), Pavel Yablochkov (1847), Alexandre Alexeieff (1901), Oleg Losev (1903), Ivan Kulibin (1735), and Rostislav Alexeyev (1916).

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