Guglielmo Marconi shared the 1909 Physics Prize for his "contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy". In the late 1800s Marconi was able to use recently discovered radio waves to transmit signals across the English Channel, from Britain to France.
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BREAKING NEWS:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2020 #NobelPrize in Physics with one half to Roger Penrose and the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez.