Alexander S. Popov [Pioneers in CAS]

The date, May 7, every year is called in Russia as a “Radio Day”. The reason of this title is very concrete: on this day of 1895 Russian physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov formerly demonstrated his receiver for the transmission of electromagnetic waves at a session of Russian Chemical and Physical Society between several buildings of the St. Petersburg University. The device was not patented but a brief description of this device was published in the regional newspaper “Kronstadt Chronicles” on May 12, 1985, as well as a paper in a journal
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. A short time later several scientific papers were published in leading journals
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,
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