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Guglielmo Marconi

1874 - 1937

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Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquess of Marconi ( mar-KOH-nee; Italian: [ɡuʎˈʎɛlmo marˈkoːni]; 25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937) was an Italian electrical engineer, inventor, and politician known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based wireless telegraph system. This led to Marconi being largely credited as the inventor of radio and sharing the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy". His work laid the foundation for the development of radio, television, and all modern wireless communication systems. Marconi was also an entrepreneur and businessman who founded the Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company (which became the Marconi Company) in the United Kingdom in 1897. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Guglielmo Marconi is the 9th most popular inventor (up from 10th in 2019), the 85th most popular biography from Italy (down from 62nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Italian Inventor.

Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian inventor who is most famous for his contributions to the development of radio.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Guglielmo Marconi ranks 9 out of 426. Before him are Thomas Edison, Johannes Gutenberg, James Watt, Karl Benz, Elon Musk, and Alexander Graham Bell. After him are Henry Ford, Louis Braille, Charles Babbage, Samuel Morse, Nikolaus Otto, and Louis Daguerre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Guglielmo Marconi ranks 2. Before him is Winston Churchill. After him are Robert Frost, W. Somerset Maugham, Arnold Schoenberg, Harry Houdini, Herbert Hoover, Howard Carter, Johannes Stark, Max Scheler, Ernst Cassirer, and Sunjong of Korea. Among people deceased in 1937, Guglielmo Marconi ranks 2. Before him is Ernest Rutherford. After him are Maurice Ravel, Pierre de Coubertin, John D. Rockefeller, Alfred Adler, Antonio Gramsci, H. P. Lovecraft, Amelia Earhart, Erich Ludendorff, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, and Lou Andreas-Salomé.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Guglielmo Marconi ranks 85 out of 5,161. Before him are Gioachino Rossini (1792), Domitian (51), Pope Urban VIII (1568), Pope Pius VI (1717), Empedocles (-490), and Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598). After him are Claudio Monteverdi (1567), Pope Innocent III (1160), Pope Pius III (1439), Sophia Loren (1934), Florence Nightingale (1820), and Luciano Pavarotti (1935).

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Among INVENTORS In Italy

Among inventors born in Italy, Guglielmo Marconi ranks 2. Before him are Leonardo da Vinci (1452). After him are Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655), Antonio Meucci (1808), Johann Maria Farina (1685), Ottaviano Petrucci (1466), Angelo Moriondo (1851), Max Valier (1895), Giovanni Caselli (1815), and Andrew Viterbi (1935).

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