Aleksandr Popov (physicist)
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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.[1][2][3]
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Born | Alexander Stepanovich Popov (1859-03-16)16 March 1859 Turyinskiye Rudniki, Perm Governorate, Russian Empire |
Died | 13 January 1906(1906-01-13) (aged 46) St. Petersburg, Russian Empire |
Known for | Radio |
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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. This day is celebrated today in Russia as Radio Day. In a 24 March 1896 demonstration, he transmitted radio signals 250 meters between different campus buildings in St. Petersburg. His work was based on that of another physicist, Oliver Lodge, and contemporaneous with the work of Guglielmo Marconi.