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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Stepanovich Popov has received more than 497,900 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Alexander Stepanovich Popov is the 87th most popular inventor (down from 76th in 2019), the 294th most popular biography from Russia (down from 272nd 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 87 out of 426. Before him are Thomas Savery, Sakichi Toyoda, Henry Bessemer, James Hargreaves, Richard Arkwright, and Vladimir K. Zworykin. After him are Mary the Jewess, William Webb Ellis, Wolfgang von Kempelen, Henri Coandă, Étienne-Jules Marey, and André-Jacques Garnerin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Alexander Stepanovich Popov ranks 21. Before him are Verner von Heidenstam, Jean Jaurès, Alexandre Millerand, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Jerome K. Jerome, and Pierre Janet. After him are Hugo Junkers, Alexander Samsonov, Anna Ancher, Venustiano Carranza, Francisco Ferrer, and Bertha Pappenheim. Among people deceased in 1906, Alexander Stepanovich Popov ranks 9. Before him are Henrik Ibsen, Christian IX of Denmark, Ludwig Boltzmann, Élie Ducommun, Archduke Otto of Austria, and Susan B. Anthony. After him are Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, Georgy Gapon, Anton Arensky, Alexander Kielland, Frits Thaulow, and Bartolomé Mitre.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Stepanovich Popov ranks 294 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexey Ekimov (1945), Alexej von Jawlensky (1864), Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874), Aleksey Kuropatkin (1848), Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1786), and Ivan II of Moscow (1326). After him are Alexandre Koyré (1892), Anastasia Romanovna (1530), Ilia II of Georgia (1933), Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia (1871), Viktor Shklovsky (1893), and Sergei Skripal (1951).

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Among INVENTORS In Russia

Among inventors born in Russia, Alexander Stepanovich Popov ranks 3. Before him are Oleg Antonov (1906), and Vladimir K. Zworykin (1888). After him are Léon Theremin (1896), Nikolai Kardashev (1932), Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (1862), Lucien Olivier (1838), Pavel Yablochkov (1847), Ivan Kulibin (1735), Alexandre Alexeieff (1901), Ivan Polzunov (1728), and Rostislav Alexeyev (1916).

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