page_title: Oliver Lodge
section_title: Tributes
hierarchical_section_title: Oliver Lodge / Tributes
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge by John Bernard Munns (1869-1942). Painted in 1923.
context_page_description: Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, FRS was a British physicist and writer involved in the development of, and holder of key patents for, radio. He identified electromagnetic radiation independent of Hertz's proof and at his 1894 Royal Institution lectures, Lodge demonstrated an early radio wave detector he named the "coherer". In 1898 he was awarded the "syntonic" patent by the United States Patent Office. Lodge was Principal of the University of Birmingham from 1900 to 1920.
context_section_description: Lodge received the honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.D) from the University of Glasgow in June 1901.
  The author of his obituary in The Times wrote:
  Always an impressive figure, tall and slender with a pleasing voice and charming manner, he enjoyed the affection and respect of a very large circle…
  Lodge’s gifts as an expounder of knowledge were of a high order, and few scientific men have been able to set forth abstruse facts in a more lucid or engaging form… Those who heard him on a great occasion, as when he gave his Romanes lecture at Oxford or his British Association presidential address at Birmingham, were charmed by his alluring personality as well as impressed by the orderly development of his thesis. But he was even better in informal debate, and when he rose, the audience, however perplexed or jaded, settled down in a pleased expectation that was never disappointed.
  Oliver Lodge Primary School in Vanderbijlpark, South Africa is named in his honour.
  Lodge is commemorated in Liverpool with a bronze figure entitled Education, at the base of the Queen Victoria Monument 
  and the Oliver Lodge Building which houses the physics department of the University of Liverpool.
caption: Sir Oliver Lodge by John Bernard Munns, 1923.
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