Sir Oliver Lodge

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Sir Oliver Lodge was a pioneering British physicist and writer best known for his work in wireless telegraphy and early radio technology, as well as his popular science and spiritualist writings.

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instanceOf human
physicist
spiritualist
academicDegree Doctor of Science
awardReceived Albert Medal of the Royal Society of Arts NERFINISHED
Rumford Medal NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship England
United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
dateOfBirth 1851-06-12
dateOfDeath 1940-08-22
educatedAt Royal College of Science NERFINISHED
University College London
employer University College Liverpool NERFINISHED
University of Birmingham NERFINISHED
familyName Lodge NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork electromagnetism
physics
psychical research
radio technology
spiritualism
wireless telegraphy
fullName Oliver Joseph Lodge NERFINISHED
givenName Oliver NERFINISHED
honorificPrefix Sir
influenced development of radio communication
influencedBy James Clerk Maxwell NERFINISHED
knownFor coining and promoting the term "syntonic" for tuned wireless circuits
early radio tuning circuits
experiments on electromagnetic waves
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Royal Society
middleName Joseph NERFINISHED
movement psychical research movement
nobleTitle Knight Bachelor NERFINISHED
notableWork Early radio tuning and syntonic wireless telegraphy NERFINISHED
Life and Matter NERFINISHED
Modern Views of Electricity NERFINISHED
Pioneering work in wireless telegraphy
Popular science writings
Raymond, or Life and Death NERFINISHED
The Ether of Space NERFINISHED
spiritualist writings
numberOfChildren 12
occupation inventor
physicist
university teacher
writer
placeOfBirth Penkhull NERFINISHED
Staffordshire NERFINISHED
Stoke-on-Trent NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Lake, Wiltshire NERFINISHED
United Kingdom
positionHeld Principal of the University of Birmingham NERFINISHED
Professor of Physics at University College Liverpool
religion Spiritualism
spouse Mary Fanny Alexander Marshall NERFINISHED
title Fellow of the Royal Society NERFINISHED

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Mason Science College notableAlumni Sir Oliver Lodge