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.
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Defining ContributionPractical wireless telegraphy; the 1901 transatlantic signal; Nobel Prize in Physics, 1909 2 Classification
AwardNational Inventors Hall of Fame 1 Connections
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1. Guglielmo Marconi (Wikipedia)
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Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquess of Marconi (25 April 1874-20 July 1937), was an Italian electrical engineer, inventor, and politician known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based wireless telegraph system.
Article body: National Inventors Hall of Fame
In 1975, Marconi was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
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Nobel Prize Outreach- Birth Year: 1874
- Death Year: 1937
- Nationality: Italian
- Defining Contribution: Practical wireless telegraphy; the 1901 transatlantic signal; Nobel Prize in Physics, 1909
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