For the British poet and author (1878–1955), see Oliver W. F. Lodge.
Sir Oliver Lodge
FRS
Born
Oliver Joseph Lodge
(1851-06-12)12 June 1851
Penkhull, Staffordshire, England
Died
22 August 1940(1940-08-22) (aged 89)
Lake, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
Occupation(s)
Physicist and inventor
Known for
Radio Radio control Loudspeaker Moving boundary method Waveguide Maxwell-Lodge effect
Awards
Rumford Medal of the Royal Society (1898)
Albert Medal (1919)
Faraday Medal (1932)
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, FRS[1] (12 June 1851 – 22 August 1940) was a British physicist and writer involved in the development of, and holder of key patents for, radio. He identified electromagnetic radiation independent of Hertz's proof and at his 1894 Royal Institution lectures ("The Work of Hertz and Some of His Successors"), Lodge demonstrated an early radio wave detector he named the "coherer". In 1898 he was awarded the "syntonic" (or tuning) patent by the United States Patent Office. Lodge was Principal of the University of Birmingham from 1900 to 1920.
Lodge was also 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.
^Gregory, R. A.; Ferguson, A. (1941). "Oliver Joseph Lodge. 1851-1940". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 3 (10): 550. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1941.0022. S2CID 154552517.
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