Guglielmo Marconi,

Marconi was an Italian inventor, known as the father of long

distance radio transmission and for his development of 

Marconi’s law and a radio telegraph system. Marconi is credited 

as the inventor of Radio, and he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in 

physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun “in recognition of their 

contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy” 

Born: April 25, 1874, Bologna, Italy Died: July 20, 1937, Rome, Italy