Oliver Lodge
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British physicist (1851-1940)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1851
- Died
- 1940
- Works
- 287
Top works
- 宇宙與物質
- La survivance humaine
- Public service versus private expenditure
- Electrons
- Der Weltäther
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 102
- Total plays
- 444
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools
· 2012 · cited 29,167x
- An improved technique for determining hardness and elastic modulus using load and displacement sensing indentation experiments
· 1992 · cited 24,713x
- Strategic Responses to Institutional Processes
· 1991 · cited 22,473x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,770x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,951x
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Quotes
- “The oldest and best known function for an ether is the conveyance of light, and hence the name "luminiferous" was applied to it, though at the present day many functions are known, and more will almost certainly be discovered.”
- “What properties are essential to a medium capable of transmitting wave motion? Roughly, we may say two: elasticity and inertia.”
- “The waves of light are not anything mechanical or material, but are something electrical and magnetic—they are, in fact, electrical disturbances periodic in space and time, and travelling with a known and tremendous speed through the ether of space. Their very existence depends upon the ether, and their speed of propagation is its best known and most certain quantitative property.”
- “Motion and force are our primary objects of experience and consciousness; and in terms of them all other less familiar occurrences may conceivably be studied and grasped.”
- “A body can only act immediately on what it is in contact with; it must be by the action of contiguous particles—that is, practically, through a continuous medium, that force can be transmitted across space.”
- “All potential energy exists in the ether. It may vibrate, and it may rotate, but as regards locomotion it is stationary—the most stationary body we know: absolutely stationary, so to speak; our standard of rest.”
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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
via Wikipedia infobox
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oliver Lodge” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.