Back
العربية
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi · Pach Brothers, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Person

Guglielmo Marconi

1874 – 1937 · aged 63

Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874–1937)

Born
25 Apr 1874 · Bologna
Died
20 Jul 1937 · Rome
Part ofItaly753 BCE – todayKingdom of Italy1785 – 1946Catholicism305 CE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 72 years
  1. 25 Apr 1874BornBorn in Bologna
  2. 1899AwardVallauri Prize
  3. 1901AwardMatteucci Medal
  4. 1909AwardNobel Prize in Physics
  5. 1912AwardGrand cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso XII
  6. 1914 – 1918WarWorld War I
  7. 1914 – 1937RoleSenator of the Kingdom of Italy
  8. 1914AwardAlbert Medal
  9. 1918AwardFranklin Medal
  10. 1920AwardIEEE Medal of Honor
  11. 1923AwardJohn Fritz Medal
  12. 1928AwardMedalla Plus Ultra
  13. 1931AwardJohn Scott Award
  14. 1934AwardWilhelm Exner Medal
  15. 20 Jul 1937DiedDied in Rome

Loading from Wikipedia and Wikidata…

Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1874 – 1937).

  1. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  2. 1898Spanish–American War
  3. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  4. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  5. 1917Balfour Declaration
  6. 1917February Revolution
  7. 1917October Revolution
  8. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  9. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  10. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  11. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  12. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  13. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  14. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War

Biography

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. This led to his being largely credited as the inventor of radio and sharing the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy."

As an entrepreneur and a businessman, Marconi founded The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company (later the Marconi Company) in the United Kingdom in 1897. In 1929, he was ennobled as a marquess (Italian: marchese) by King Victor Emmanuel III, thus becoming the 1st Marchese di Marconi. In 1931, he set up Vatican Radio for Pope Pius XI.

Text from the Wikipedia article Guglielmo Marconi, CC BY-SA 4.0

About this information

Dates and life events come from this person’s Wikidata entry.

We only show events that the sources give a date for. Anything without a date is left out rather than guessed.