Oliver Lodge
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British physicist (1851-1940)
Key facts
- Preceded by
- Office established
- Succeeded by
- Sir Charles Grant Robertson
- Born
- Oliver Joseph Lodge , ( 1851-06-12 ) 12 June 1851, Penkhull , England , UKGBI
- Died
- 22 August 1940 (1940-08-22) (aged 89), Wilsford cum Lake , England, UK
- Spouse
- Mary Fanny Alexander Marshall ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1877 ; died 1929 )
- Children
- 12, including Oliver and Alexander
- Relatives
- See below
- Education
- Adams Grammar School
- Alma mater
- University of London ( BSc , DSc )
- Known for
- Radio coherer microwaves moving-coil loudspeaker moving boundary method aether drag waveguide Maxwell–Lodge effect
- Awards
- Rumford Medal (1898) Albert Medal (1919) Faraday Medal (1932)
- Fields
- Electromagnetism Radio-frequency engineering
- Institutions
- Bedford College, London (1879–1881) University College Liverpool (1881–1900)
- Notable students
- Charles Barkla
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Joseph
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Place of death
- Wilsford
- Occupation
- writer
- Position held
- chairperson
- Educated at
- Haberdashers' Adams
- Employer
- University of Birmingham
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Knight Bachelor
- Doctoral student
- Charles Glover Barkla
- Image
- Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge. Colour lithograph by Sir L. Ward (S Wellcome V0003681.jpg
- Work location
- Liverpool
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- Commons category
- Oliver Lodge
- date of birth
- 1851-06-12
- date of death
- 1940-08-22
- member of
- American Philosophical Society
- archives at
- National Library of Wales
- writing language
- English language
- Commons Creator page
- Oliver Lodge
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- birth name
- Oliver Joseph Lodge
- honorific prefix
- Sir
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Oliver Lodge, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (12 June 1851 – 22 August 1940) 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" (or tuning) patents.
Lodge became Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics at Bedford College, London, in 1879, was appointed Professor of Physics at University College Liverpool in 1881, and served as Principal of the University of Birmingham from 1900 to 1919.
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