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Oliver Lodge

1851 - 1940

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Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (12 June 1851 – 22 August 1940) was an English physicist whose investigations into electromagnetic radiation contributed to the development of radio communication. He identified electromagnetic radiation independent of Heinrich Hertz's proof. At his 1894 Royal Institution lectures ("The Work of Hertz and Some of His Successors"), Lodge's demonstrations on methods to transmit and detect radio waves included an improved early radio receiver he named the "coherer". His work led to him holding key patents in early radio communication, his "syntonic" (or tuning) patents. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Oliver Lodge is the 163rd most popular inventor (up from 208th in 2019), the 1,645th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,799th in 2019) and the 24th most popular British Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Oliver Lodge ranks 163 out of 426. Before him are Joseph Monier, Paul Baran, Christopher Latham Sholes, Edwin Howard Armstrong, Elizabeth Holmes, and Zacharias Janssen. After him are Georg Luger, Alfred Vail, Guillaume Amontons, Robert Watson-Watt, Robert Metcalfe, and Charles Algernon Parsons.

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Among people born in 1851, Oliver Lodge ranks 30. Before him are Charles Dupuy, Guillaume Bigourdan, Arne Garborg, Alexander, Prince of Orange, Charles Dow, and Isabella, Princess of Asturias. After him are Emilia Pardo Bazán, Jonas Basanavičius, Stephan Burián von Rajecz, Doc Holliday, Princess Maria Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and Aristide Bruant. Among people deceased in 1940, Oliver Lodge ranks 56. Before him are Édouard Claparède, Prince Aage, Count of Rosenborg, Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark, J.-H. Rosny aîné, Jehan Alain, and Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria. After him are Saionji Kinmochi, Luigi Orione, Paul Nizan, Joseph Meister, Wilhelm Dörpfeld, and Georgios Tsitas.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Oliver Lodge ranks 1,645 out of 8,785. Before him are Julian Glover (1935), James Cosmo (1947), John French, 1st Earl of Ypres (1852), Lucinda Riley (1965), Thomas Hodgkin (1798), and Walafrid Strabo (808). After him are Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836), Nigel Short (1965), Michael Owen (1979), Gary Lineker (1960), Beau Brummell (1778), and Christabel Pankhurst (1880).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Oliver Lodge ranks 24. Before him are James Hargreaves (1720), Edmund Cartwright (1743), Samuel Crompton (1753), W. O. Bentley (1888), John Kay (1704), and Robert Stirling (1790). After him are Robert Watson-Watt (1892), Charles Algernon Parsons (1854), Sandford Fleming (1827), Matthew Boulton (1728), William Murdoch (1754), and James Dyson (1947).

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