April 25, 2024 marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), physicist and inventor, pioneer of radio communications and responsible for the first lighting of Christ the Redeemer, in Rio de Janeiro.
Marconi won the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of radio waves, to which the modern world owes the emergence of wireless communications, transcending borders.
In September 1895, still at the age of 21, in his studio in Villa Griffone, in Sasso Marconi, after many attempts, the physicist achieved what until then was unthinkable: sending a wireless signal overcoming a physical obstacle, a hill in front of him.
Back in 1931, when Christ the Redeemer was inaugurated on October 12th, the Italian genius remotely activated the statue's lighting from 9,2 kilometers away in Rome.
The Belpaese will hold a series of events in his honor. “I am happy that Italy has woken up. I am doing everything I can to collaborate in these celebrations,” his daughter Elettra Marconi told ANSA.
The launch of a commemorative stamp is planned; an international conference with Nobel laureate Anne L'Huillier and NASA director Mark Clampin; multimedia shows, exhibitions and more tributes. (HANDLE)
