Lodge, Olive

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Summary: Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge was an English physicist and electrical engineer whose investigations into electromagnetic radiation (EMR) contributed to the development of radio. He identified EMR independent of Heinrich Hertz's proof. In his 1894 Royal Institution lecture, 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" patents. Wikipedia
Gender or Sex: Male [1][2][3][4][5][6]
Born: 1851 [2]; 1851-06-12 [6]
Birth Place: Stoke-on-Trent, GB [3]; Stoke-on-Trent [6]
Died: 1940 [2]; 1940-08-22 [6]
Death Place: Normanton House, Salisbury, GB [3]; Wilsford [6]
Country: Great Britain [2]
Language: English [3]
Occupation: physicist [6]; inventor [6]; naturalist [6]; writer [6]
Employer: University of Liverpool [6]
Work Place: Liverpool [2]
Educated at: Haberdashers' Adams [6]; University of London [6]
Country of Education: United Kingdom [6]
Archives at: National Library of Wales [6]
Encyclopædia Britannica: Biography [6]
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Biography (requires subscription) [6]
Yale LUX: Entity [6]
Oxford Reference: Overview [6]

Sources: 1. VIAF; 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany); 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France; 4. Library of Congress; 5. National Library of Korea; 6. Wikidata

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