Alexander Popov

Alexander Popov

radio inventor



Alexander Stepanovich Popov was Russian physicist and electrical engineer, known of his investigations of electromagnetic waves and receiving them over long distances. Popov was the first who used an antenna in the transmission and reception of radio waves. He constructed an apparatus that could register atmospheric electrical disturbances and was interested in X rays. Popov was acclaimed in Russia as the inventor of radio but its priority has not been generally accepted; Marconi's priority is usually conceded.