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Édouard Branly
Édouard Eugène Désiré Branly was a French physicist and inventor known for his early involvement in wireless telegraphy and his invention of the coherer in 1890.
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science · French physicist and inventor (1844–1940) · physicist · physician · university teacher · also Édouard Branly, Branly, Branly, Edouard, Edouard Branly, Edouard Eugène Branly, Edouard Eugene Branly
Born 23 October 1844 · Died 24 March 1940 · Q274251
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2026· 3 entries
“An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.”
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“Any idea is a universalization, and universalizing is a property of thinking. To universalize something means to think.”
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1940· 1 entry
Died 1940-03-24.
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1936· 1 entry
Was elected to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
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1911· 1 entry
Was elected to the French Academy of Sciences, winning over his rival Marie Curie
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1890· 1 entry
Branly demonstrated what he later called the "radio-conductor", which Lodge in 1893 named the coherer, the first sensitive device for detecting radio waves
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1884· 1 entry
Led to the development of the first radio wave detector, the coherer, by Branly some years later
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1844· 1 entry
Born 1844-10-23.
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1833· 1 entry
“Any idea is a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize something means to think it.”
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