biography
pronunciation:
[mah(r)kohnee]
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| lived:
| (1874–1937)
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| biography:
| Physicist and inventor, born in Bologna, N Italy. He studied at the Technical Institute of Livorno, and started experimenting with a device to convert electromagnetic waves into electricity. His first successful experiments in wireless telegraphy were made at Bologna in 1895, and in 1899 he erected a wireless station at La Spezia, and formed the Marconi Telegraph Co in London. In 1899 he transmitted signals across the English Channel, and in 1901 across the Atlantic. He later developed short-wave radio equipment, and established a worldwide radio telegraph network for the British government. He shared the 1909 Nobel Prize for Physics. |
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