Today, 119 years ago, on January 16, 1906, the inventor of radio Popov died.

He was the first Russian scientist to explore the radio world and struggle for the development of the radio career throughout his life. But because of the feudal contents of Tsarist Russia, his career was not supported by the state. On January 16, 1906, he died of cerebral hemorrhage, and then lived only 47 years. In 1894, because of the Nobel Prize was given only to the living scientists, Popov did not receive this honor. In March 1859, Popov was born in a town in a mine district of Ural in Russia, and in 1877 he was admitted to the Department of Mathematical Physics at the University of St. Petersburg and then transferred to the Forest College. In 1894, Popov made a wireless receiver, and he first used an antenna on the receiver. This was also the first antenna in the world. On March 24, 189