1874-1937. Italian pioneer in the invention
and development of wireless telegraphy. In
1895 he achieved wireless communication over
more than a mile, and in England in 1896 he
conducted successful experiments that led to
the formation of the company that became
Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company Ltd. He
shared the Nobel Prize for Physics 1909. In
1898 he successfully transmitted signals
across the English Channel, and in 1901
established communication with St John's,
Newfoundland, from Poldhu in Cornwall, and in
1918 with Australia. Marconi was an Italian
delegate to the Versailles peace conference
in 1919 after World War I.