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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.
Aleksandr Popov was a physicist and electrical engineer acclaimed in Russia as the inventor of radio. Evidently, he built his first primitive radio receiver, a lightning detector (1895), without knowledge of the contemporary work of the Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi.
Jun 5, 2024 · Overview. Aleksandr Stepanovich Popov. (1859—1906) Quick Reference. (1859–1906) Russian physicist and electrical engineer. Popov, the son of a priest from Bogoslavsky in Russia, was educated in a seminary to prepare him for a clerical profession.
Alexander Popov is widely known in Russia as a pioneering radio inventor. Paradoxically enough, he built his first radio receiver, a thunderstorm detector, working almost in parallel with...
POPOV, ALEXANDER STEPANOVICH. (1859 – 1905), prominent mathematician and physicist. Russia claims that Alexander Stepanovich Popov invented the radio before the Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi.
Apr 24, 2020 · In 1895 the Russian physicist Aleksandr S. Popov invented a device for detecting electrical disturbances in the atmosphere. More than just a lightning detector, Popov's invention proved the feasibility of radio transmission.
After graduating from the University in 1882, A.S. Popov remained there as a post-graduate at the Physics Department. A year later he became a lecturer in Physics and Electrical Engineering in Kronstadt. By this time he had already won recognition among specialists as an authority in this field.
