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Guglielmo Marconi
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Date of Birth
Born into nobility and his full name is Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi. He was born in 1874 in Bologna, Italy. (http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1909/marconi-bio.html) -
Fascination of the Electromatic Interactions
He became fascinated with the German physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz. Marconi built his own wave generating equipment at his family's estate and was soon sending signals to locations a mile away. -
Education
Livorno Technical Institute is where he went to study. Though he went to school, he got most of his education at home. (http://www.biography.com/people/guglielmo-marconi-9398611) -
Labratory Research
In 1895 he began labratory research in his dad's estate. He succeeded in sending wireless signals over one and half miles away. -
Guglielmo Marconi in England
22-year-old Marconi and his mother arrived in England and quickly found intersted backer and including the British post office. Within a year, he was brodcasting up to 12 miles. He set up a wireless station on the Isle of Wight. This allowed Queen Victoria to send messages to her son, Prince Edward. -
Another Link
In 1899 he established a wireless link between Britain and France across the English Channel. -
Marriage
He married in 1905 to Beatrice O'Brien the 14th. In June 12. 1927, he got married to another woman named Maria Cristina Bezzi-Scali. (http://www.biography.com/people/guglielmo-marconi-9398611#later-years) -
Noble Prize
He recieved the Noble Prize of Physics along with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy." (http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1909/) -
Knight
He was honoured in Britain by King George V with the title of Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order.He was treated differently since he was treated like an outsider because he was Italian, which was linked to Germany. (http://www.electronics-radio.com/articles/history/pioneers/guglielmo-marconi-last-days-death.php) -
Date of Death
He died Rome from a heart attack at 63 years old. (http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1909/marconi-bio.html)
