Lodge, Oliver, Sir, 1851-1940

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Name (Hebrew)
לודג', אוליבר, סר, 1851-1940
Name (Latin)
Lodge, Oliver, Sir, 1851-1940
Other forms of name
Lodge, Oliver Joseph, Sir, 1851-1940
לודג', אוליבר ג'וזף, סר, 1851-1940
Date of birth
1851-06-12
Date of death
1940-08-22
Associated country
Great Britain
Field of activity
Physics
Spiritualism
Occupation
Physicists
Spiritualists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 39421635
Wikidata: Q379816
Library of congress: n 87826187
Sources of Information
  • LC data base, 4-15-87(hdg.: Lodge, Oliver Joseph, Sir, 1851-1940; usage: Sir Oliver Lodge; Oliver J. Lodge)
  • LCCN 05-4504: His Pioneers of science, 1904(hdg.: Lodge, Sir Oliver [Joseph] 1851-1940; usage: Sir Oliver Lodge)
  • Wikipedia, viewed September 7, 2019(Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge; British physicist; born 12 June 1851, Penkhull, Staffordshire; died 22 August 1940, Lake, Wiltshire; Principal of the University of Birmingham from 1900 to 1920; spiritualist; a member of The Ghost Club, and served as president of the London-based Society for Psychical Research from 1901 to 1903)
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Wikipedia description:

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 his holding key patents in early radio communication, his "syntonic" (or tuning) patents. Lodge became Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics in Bedford College, London in 1879, was appointed Professor of Physics in University College Liverpool in 1881 and was Principal of the University of Birmingham from 1900 to 1919. Lodge was a pioneer of spiritualism; his pseudoscientific research into life after death was a topic on which he wrote many books, including the best-selling Raymond; or, Life and Death (1916), which detailed messages he received from a medium, which he believed came from his son who was killed in the First World War.

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