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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 and writer involved in the development of, and holder of key patents for, radio. He identified electromagnetic radiation independent of Hertz's proof and at his 1894 Royal Institution lectures ("The Work of Hertz and Some of His Successors"), Lodge demonstrated an early radio wave detector he named the "coherer". In 1898 he was awarded the "syntonic" (or tuning) patent by the United States Patent Office. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oliver Lodge has received more than 307,672 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Oliver Lodge is the 208th most popular inventor (down from 204th in 2019), the 1,798th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,785th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular British Inventor.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Oliver Lodge ranks 208 out of 426. Before him are Carl Wilhelm Siemens, Henry Maudslay, Narcís Monturiol, Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Melvil Dewey, and Shigeo Shingo. After him are Lars Magnus Ericsson, Yuan Longping, J. Presper Eckert, Gerald Bull, Robert Metcalfe, and Helmut Gröttrup.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, Oliver Lodge ranks 49. Before him are Alois Jirásek, Charles Joseph Bonaparte, Aristide Bruant, Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Charles Chamberland, and Melvil Dewey. After him are Otto Schott, Taytu Betul, Anton Haus, George Abraham Grierson, Alexandros Papadiamantis, and Roque Sáenz Peña. Among people deceased in 1940, Oliver Lodge ranks 74. Before him are Henri Desgrange, Janina Lewandowska, J.-H. Rosny aîné, Alfred Loisy, Gjergj Fishta, and Robert Hichens. After him are Olga Boznańska, John A. Hobson, Abdelhamid Ben Badis, Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz, Cai Yuanpei, and José Félix Estigarribia.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Oliver Lodge ranks 1,798 out of 8,785. Before him are John Fastolf (1380), Tim Rice (1944), Robert Hichens (1882), Sarah Miles (1941), Cynegils (575), and Dorothy L. Sayers (1893). After him are Albert F. Mummery (1855), George Meredith (1828), Renée Vivien (1877), E. Nesbit (1858), Ernest Bevin (1881), and Sam Worthington (1976).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Oliver Lodge ranks 32. Before him are Matthew Boulton (1728), James Dyson (1947), Sandford Fleming (1827), Jethro Tull (1674), David Edward Hughes (1831), and Henry Maudslay (1771). After him are Robert Watson-Watt (1892), Alexander Parkes (1813), Hubert Cecil Booth (1871), Clive Sinclair (1940), John Kemp Starley (1854), and Joseph Whitworth (1803).

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