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Alexander Popov
Born: Turyinskye Rudniki, Perm Governate - 16 March 1859
Died: St. Petersburg - 13 January 1906
Western visitors to Russia are often surprised (sometimes enraged) to discover that in this country Guglielmo Marconi is not recognized as the inventor of the radio.
Alexander stepanovich popov biography
That honour goes Alexander Popov, who on 7 May 1895 presented a paper to the Physical and Chemical Society in St. Petersburg explaining how a lightening detector could be used as a coherer to detect radio noise from lightening strikes.
Alexander Stepanovich Popov was born in 1859 in what is now the town of Krasnoturinsk in the Central Ural Mountains. Popov's father was the local priest, and the future inventor was also destined to enter the priesthood, and was sent to the Perm Seminary.
During his schooldays, Popov already showed a keen interest in making and repairing toys and mechanical instruments, and his excellent results in maths and physics won him a place at St. Petersburg Unive