Figures

Guglielmo Marconi

goo-LYEL-moh mar-KOH-nee

Radio Pioneer

Citation Formats

General Reference

Film and Media Atlas. "Guglielmo Marconi." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://media.interactiveatlas.org/figures/guglielmo-marconi.

APA Style

Film and Media Atlas. (n.d.). Guglielmo Marconi. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://media.interactiveatlas.org/figures/guglielmo-marconi

BibTeX

@misc{filmandmediaatlas-guglielmo-marconi,
  author = {Film and Media Atlas},
  title = {Guglielmo Marconi},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://media.interactiveatlas.org/figures/guglielmo-marconi},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Italian inventor and entrepreneur who made wireless telegraphy practical and commercial, and in December 1901 claimed reception of the first transatlantic radio signal at Signal Hill, Newfoundland. He shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun for contributions to wireless telegraphy.

Facts

Birth Year

1874 1

Death Year

1937 1

Nationality

Italian 1

Defining Contribution

Practical wireless telegraphy; the 1901 transatlantic signal; Nobel Prize in Physics, 1909 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

Associated With

Radio

Source Nobel Prize Official Site

Milestones Credited

First Transatlantic Radio Signal

Source Nobel Prize Official Site

Sources

1. Nobel Prize Official Site

Nobel Prize OutreachView the Source

Comments (0)

No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.

Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)

No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.

View At A Past Year

The atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.

Switch Atlas

The Inner World

The Civil World

The Natural World