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  1. Alexander Stepanovich Popov (sometimes spelled Popoff; Russian: Александр Степанович Попов; March 16 [O.S. March 4] 1859 – January 13 [O.S. December 31, 1905] 1906) was a Russian physicist who was one of the first people to invent a radio receiving device.

  2. Jun 5, 2024 · Overview. Aleksandr Stepanovich Popov. (1859—1906) Quick Reference. (1859–1906) Russian physicist and electrical engineer. Popov, the son of a priest from Bogoslavsky in Russia, was educated in a seminary to prepare him for a clerical profession.

  3. Aleksandr Popov was a physicist and electrical engineer acclaimed in Russia as the inventor of radio. Evidently, he built his first primitive radio receiver, a lightning detector (1895), without knowledge of the contemporary work of the Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi.

  4. An obedient son, Popov did what his father had done, but later made a surprising U-turn, to do it his way. From theology to science

  5. Apr 30, 2020 · Aleksandr Popov Developed the First Radio Capable of Distinguishing Morse Code. A year after his 1895 demonstration, Aleksandr Popov used his radio apparatus to send a Morse code message.

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  6. physicist. Had Aleksandr Stepanovich Popov stayed with his initial vocation, he would never have been involved with radio. Born on March 16, 1859, in Turinsk, Russia, Popov followed in his father's footsteps and studied for the priesthood.

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  8. POPOV, ALEKSANDR STEPANOVICH (b. Turinsk mining village, at the Bogoslov works [now Krasnoturinsk, Sverdlovsk oblast], Russia, 16 March 1859; d. St. Petersburg, Russia, 13 January 1906), physics technology. The son of a priest, Popov received a free seminary education to encourage him to follow his father’s profession.

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