Guglielmo Marconi

Guglielmo Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer known for his pioneering work on longdistance radio transmission and for his development of Marconis law and a radio telegraph system. He is often credited as the inventor of radio, and he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy.

Marconi was born into the Italian nobility as Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi in Bologna onApril 1874, the second son of Giuseppe Marconi and his IrishScots wife Annie Jameson . Between the ages of two and six, Marconi and his elder brother Alfonso were brought up by his mother in the English town of Bedford. After returning to Italy, at ageUniversity of Bologna physicist Augusto Righi, neighbour of Marconi who had done research on Heinrich Hertzs work, permitted Marconi to attend lectures at the university and use the lab and library as well. Marconi received further education in Florence at the Istituto Cavallero and, later, in Livorno. Marconi did not do well in school, according to Robert McHenry, though historian Giuliano Corradi characterizes him in his biography as a true genius. He was baptized as a Catholic but had been brought up as a member of the Anglican Church, being married into it . Marconi was confirmed in the Catholic faith and became a devout member of the

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