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Oliver Lodge

1851 - 1940

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Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, (12 June 1851 – 22 August 1940) was a British 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 289,902 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Oliver Lodge is the 204th most popular inventor (up from 209th in 2019), the 1,790th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,876th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular British Inventor.

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  • 26

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Oliver Lodge ranks 204 out of 354. Before him are Yuan Longping, Hovannes Adamian, Lagâri Hasan Çelebi, Lou Ottens, Wan Hu, and Georges Hébert. After him are Hans von Ohain, John Wesley Hyatt, Eli Whitney, Helmut Gröttrup, Max Skladanowsky, and Robert Cornelius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, Oliver Lodge ranks 41. Before him are Melvil Dewey, Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, Charles Dupuy, Arne Garborg, Stephan Burián von Rajecz, and Jonas Basanavičius. After him are Edward Walter Maunder, Alois Jirásek, Luis Ricardo Falero, Taytu Betul, Anton Haus, and Aristide Bruant. Among people deceased in 1940, Oliver Lodge ranks 70. Before him are Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Jan Kubelík, Gjergj Fishta, Willi Münzenberg, Phan Bội Châu, and Arthur Rostron. After him are Henri Desgrange, Nedo Nadi, Madeleine Astor, John A. Hobson, Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz, and Albert Kahn.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Oliver Lodge ranks 1,790 out of 7,765. Before him are FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788), Luke Evans (1979), Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto (1751), Arthur Rostron (1869), Nicolas Roeg (1928), and James Boswell (1740). After him are Bernard Williams (1929), Thomas Hicks (1876), Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831), Lilian Harvey (1906), Stephen Toulmin (1922), and Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Oliver Lodge ranks 32. Before him are David Edward Hughes (1831), Hubert Cecil Booth (1871), Matthew Boulton (1728), Sandford Fleming (1827), William Murdoch (1754), and John Kemp Starley (1854). After him are Henry Maudslay (1771), Robert Watson-Watt (1892), Frederick Scott Archer (1813), Elihu Thomson (1853), James Dyson (1947), and Joseph Whitworth (1803).

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