Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi was an Italian electrical engineer, inventor and politician known for creating a practical radio wave based wireless telegraph system, work for which he is widely credited as the inventor of radio. He shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy.
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This led to his being largely credited as the inventor of radio and sharing the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy." As an entrepreneur and a businessman, Marconi founded The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company (later the Marconi Company) in the United Kingdom in 1897.
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