Oliver Lodge

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5 total works indexed

1. The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools

   · 2012 · cited 28,375x

2. An improved technique for determining hardness and elastic modulus using load and displacement sensing indentation experiments

   · 1992 · cited 24,452x

3. Strategic Responses to Institutional Processes

   · 1991 · cited 22,369x

4. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,370x

5. 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 15,328x

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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.”

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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

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Image

Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge. Colour lithograph by Sir L. Ward (S Wellcome V0003681.jpg

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