Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph (1851-1940), an English physicist, investigated the nature of oscillations and electric waves in wires and in wireless telegraphy. His discoveries helped in developing the radio. His works include Modern Views of Electricity (1889), Electrons (1907), and The Ether of Space (1909). He served as professor of physics at University College, Liverpool. Later, he became deeply interested in spiritualism. Lodge was born on June 12, 1851, in Penkhull, England. He died on Aug. 22, 1940.