Oliver Lodge
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British physicist (1851-1940)
OverviewAI-generated
Oliver Lodge was a person born on 12 June 1851 and died on 22 August 1940. His recorded works include *La survivance humaine*, *Public service versus private expenditure*, *Electrons*, *Der Weltäther*, and *宇宙與物質*. He is recognized in the Royal Society collection and the National Inventors Hall Of Fame collection.
Lodge’s bibliography includes 287 works according to Open Library records. Other sources list varying counts of his works, with Crossref citing five and Europeana Sparql citing one. His musical activity is documented with 102 listeners and 444 plays on Last.fm.
Synthesized by Vinony from 19 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Europeana Sparql, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1851
- Died
- 1940
- Works
- 287
Top works
- 宇宙與物質
- La survivance humaine
- Public service versus private expenditure
- Electrons
- Der Weltäther
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 102
- Total plays
- 444
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Oliver+Lodge">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools
· 2012 · cited 29,167x
- An improved technique for determining hardness and elastic modulus using load and displacement sensing indentation experiments
· 1992 · cited 24,713x
- Strategic Responses to Institutional Processes
· 1991 · cited 22,473x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,770x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,951x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “The oldest and best known function for an ether is the conveyance of light, and hence the name "luminiferous" was applied to it, though at the present day many functions are known, and more will almost certainly be discovered.”
- “What properties are essential to a medium capable of transmitting wave motion? Roughly, we may say two: elasticity and inertia.”
- “The waves of light are not anything mechanical or material, but are something electrical and magnetic—they are, in fact, electrical disturbances periodic in space and time, and travelling with a known and tremendous speed through the ether of space. Their very existence depends upon the ether, and their speed of propagation is its best known and most certain quantitative property.”
- “Motion and force are our primary objects of experience and consciousness; and in terms of them all other less familiar occurrences may conceivably be studied and grasped.”
- “A body can only act immediately on what it is in contact with; it must be by the action of contiguous particles—that is, practically, through a continuous medium, that force can be transmitted across space.”
- “All potential energy exists in the ether. It may vibrate, and it may rotate, but as regards locomotion it is stationary—the most stationary body we know: absolutely stationary, so to speak; our standard of rest.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Preceded by
- Office established
- Succeeded by
- Sir Charles Grant Robertson
- Born
- Oliver Joseph Lodge , ( 1851-06-12 ) 12 June 1851, Penkhull , England , UKGBI
- Died
- 22 August 1940 (1940-08-22) (aged 89), Wilsford cum Lake , England, UK
- Spouse
- Mary Fanny Alexander Marshall ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1877 ; died 1929 )
- Children
- 12, including Oliver and Alexander
- Relatives
- See below
- Education
- Adams Grammar School
- Alma mater
- University of London ( BSc , DSc )
- Known for
- Radio coherer microwaves moving-coil loudspeaker moving boundary method aether drag waveguide Maxwell–Lodge effect
- Awards
- Rumford Medal (1898) Albert Medal (1919) Faraday Medal (1932)
- Fields
- Electromagnetism Radio-frequency engineering
- Institutions
- Bedford College, London (1879–1881) University College Liverpool (1881–1900)
- Notable students
- Charles Barkla
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Joseph
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Place of death
- Wilsford
- Occupation
- writer
- Position held
- chairperson
- Educated at
- Haberdashers' Adams
- Employer
- University of Birmingham
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Knight Bachelor
- Doctoral student
- Charles Glover Barkla
- Image
- Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge. Colour lithograph by Sir L. Ward (S Wellcome V0003681.jpg
- Work location
- Liverpool
Show 11 more facts
- Commons category
- Oliver Lodge
- date of birth
- 1851-06-12
- date of death
- 1940-08-22
- member of
- American Philosophical Society
- archives at
- National Library of Wales
- writing language
- English language
- Commons Creator page
- Oliver Lodge
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- birth name
- Oliver Joseph Lodge
- honorific prefix
- Sir
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Oliver Lodge, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
~27 min read
Encyclopedic overview
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 him holding key patents in early radio communication, his "syntonic" (or tuning) patents.
Lodge became Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics at Bedford College, London, in 1879, was appointed Professor of Physics at University College Liverpool in 1881, and served as Principal of the University of Birmingham from 1900 to 1919.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oliver Lodge” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.