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Aleksandr Popov, in full Aleksandr Stepanovich Popov, (born March 4 [March 16, New Style], 1859, Turinskiye Rudniki [now Krasnoturinsk], Perm, Russia—died Dec. 31, 1905, [Jan. 13, 1906], St. Petersburg), physicist and electrical engineer acclaimed in Russia as the inventor of radio.

Alexander Stepanovich Popov (sometimes spelled Popoff; Russian: Алекса́ндр Степа́нович Попо́в; 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 persons to invent a radio receiving device.

Alexander Stepanovich Popov, a Russian physicist, was born Mar. 16, 1859. Nearly everyone knows that Guglielmo Marconi was the inventor of radio, but nearly everyone is wrong about this. Marconi received the Nobel Prize in 1909 for the "development" of radio, not the invention – lots of other people were ahead of him here.

A still from the movie about Russian radio inventor, Alexander Popov. Sputnik In 1901, Popov became Professor of Physics at the ‘Electrotechnical Institute of Emperor Alexander III’.

Popov was the chair of the Department of Physics at St. Petersburg University in 1901 and director of the St. Petersburg Institute of Electrical Engineering in 1905. On May 7, 1895, Popov demonstrated that a receiver could detect the electromagnetic waves produced by lightning discharges in the atmosphere many miles away.

Biography. Aleksandr Popov, an oft-overlooked figure in radio history, was born in the village of Turinsk, Russia, 16 March 1859. He was one of seven children. Popov's father, a village priest, encouraged him to enter the priesthood. He attended Seminary School at Ekatarinburg, where he became interested in science and mathematics, interests ...

(1859–1906) Russian physicist and electrical engineerPopov, the son of a priest from Bogoslavsky in Russia, was educated in a seminary to prepare him for a clerical profession. His interest however turned to physics and mathematics, which he studied at the University of St. Petersburg between 1877 and 1882.

English: Alexander Stepanovich Popov ( Александр Степанович Попов; March 4, 1859 – December 31, 1905) was a Russian physicist who demonstrated a radio wave receiver (that recorded lightning strikes) on 7 May 1895 and sent a message with a spark-gap transmitter and receiver on 24 March 1896, making him an early (some ...