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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 476,004 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Stepanovich Popov is the 76th most popular inventor (down from 69th in 2019), the 273rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 199th in 2019) and the 2nd 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 76 out of 354. Before him are Jacques de Vaucanson, Oleg Antonov, Jacques Piccard, Thomas Savery, Richard Arkwright, and Kōnosuke Matsushita. After him are James Hargreaves, André-Jacques Garnerin, Claude Chappe, Henry Bessemer, Momofuku Ando, and Ray Tomlinson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Alexander Stepanovich Popov ranks 20. Before him are Sholem Aleichem, Jean Jaurès, Alexandre Millerand, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Verner von Heidenstam, and Hugo Junkers. After him are Pierre Janet, Alexander Samsonov, Jerome K. Jerome, Venustiano Carranza, Francisco Ferrer, and Bertha Pappenheim. Among people deceased in 1906, Alexander Stepanovich Popov ranks 8. Before him are Pierre Curie, Henrik Ibsen, Ludwig Boltzmann, Christian IX of Denmark, Élie Ducommun, and Archduke Otto of Austria. After him are Susan B. Anthony, Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, Georgy Gapon, Anton Arensky, Alexander Kielland, and Elizabeth of the Trinity.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Stepanovich Popov ranks 273 out of 3,262. Before him are Alexander Yegorov (1883), Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia (1871), Alexandre Koyré (1892), Dmitry Yazov (1924), Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1786), and Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia (1832). After him are Fyodor Tolbukhin (1894), Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia (1860), Nikolai Yudenich (1862), Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864), Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia (1783), and Andrei Grechko (1903).

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Among INVENTORS In Russia

Among inventors born in Russia, Alexander Stepanovich Popov ranks 2. Before him are Oleg Antonov (1906). After him are Léon Theremin (1896), Vladimir K. Zworykin (1888), Nikolai Kardashev (1932), Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (1862), Lucien Olivier (1838), Pavel Yablochkov (1847), Ivan Kulibin (1735), Rostislav Alexeyev (1916), Ivan Polzunov (1728), and Oleg Losev (1903).

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