Oliver Lodge

Sir Oliver Lodge FRS
Born	Oliver Joseph Lodge (1851-06-12)12 June 1851 Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent, England
Died	22 August 1940(1940-08-22) (aged 89) Wilsford cum Lake, Wiltshire, England
Alma mater	University of London (BSc, DSc)
Known for	Maxwell–Lodge effect Aether drag hypothesis Moving boundary method Moving-coil loudspeaker Radio receiver Syntonic transmitter Waveguide
Spouse	Mary Fanny Alexander Marshall ​ ​ (m. 1877; died 1929)​
Children	12, including Oliver and Alexander
Relatives	Alfred Lodge (brother) Richard Lodge (brother) Eleanor Lodge (sister)
Awards	FRS (1887) Rumford Medal (1898) Knighthood (1902) Albert Medal (1919) Faraday Medal (1932)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University College Liverpool

Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge FRS^[1] (12 June 1851 – 22 August 1940) was an English physicist and inventor. He identified electromagnetic radiation independent of Hertz's proof and at his 1894 Royal Institution lectures ("The Work of Hertz and Some of His Successors"), Lodge demonstrated an early radio wave detector he named the "coherer". In 1898 he was awarded the "syntonic" (or tuning) patent by the United States Patent Office. Lodge was Principal of the University of Birmingham from 1900 to 1920.

Lodge was also pioneer of spiritualism. His pseudoscientific research into life after death was a topic on which he wrote many books, including the best-selling Raymond; or, Life and Death (1916), which detailed messages he received from a medium, which he believed came from his son who was killed in the First World War.