Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph ♂

Education

LL.D. 18.4.1888.

Birth/childhood

Born 12.6.1851 at Penkhull, Staffs. [Staffordshire] eldest son of Oliver Lodge, merchant, Wolstanton and Grace Heath.

Career

Studied Royal College of Science and University College, London.

Professor of Physics, University College, Liverpool 1881-1900. Principal, Birmingham University 1900-1919 (retired). [University professor, physicist, inventor]

[Identified electromagnetic radiation and was involved in the development of patents for radio].

Publications

Modern views of electricity. (London: Macmillan, 1889)

The immortality of the soul. (Boston: Ball Publishing Co., 1908)

Death

Died 22.8.1940.

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