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LODGE, SIR OLIVER JOSEPH (1851 )

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 860 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LOB-LUP
LODGE, SIR OLIVER JOSEPH (1851 ) , English physicist, was born at Penkhull, Staffordshire, on the 12th of June 1851, and was educated at Newport (Salop) grammar school. He was intended for a business career, but being attracted to science he entered University College, London, in 1872, graduating D.Sc. at London University in 1877. In 1875 he was appointed reader in natural philosophy at
Bedford
  College for Women, and in 1879 he became assistant professor of applied mathematics at University College, London. Two years later he was called to the chair of physics in University College, Liverpool, where he remained till in 1900 he was chosen first
principal
  of the new
Birmingham
  University. He was knighted in 1902. His
original
 
work
  includes investigations on lightning, the seat of the electromotive force in the voltaic cell, the phenomena of
electrolysis
  and the
speed
  of the ion, electromagnetic waves and wireless telegraphy, the motion of the
aether
  nea: ,ne earth, and the application of electricity to the dispersal of fog and smoke. He presided over the mathematical and
physical
  section of the British Association in 1891, and served as president of the
Physical
  Society in 18991900 and of the Society for Psychical Research in 19011904. In addition to numerous scientific memoirs he wrote, among other works, Lightning Conductors and Lightning Guards, Signalling without Wires, Modern Views of Electricity, Electrons and The Ether of Space, together with various books and papers of a meta-physical and theological character.


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