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PROF. EDOUARD BRANLY, the inventor of the coherer, which enabled Marconi to develop wireless communication and who is known in France as the ‘father of wireless’, died on March 25 at the age of ninety-five. He was born at Amiens on October 23, 1844, and after showing great brilliance as a schoolboy entered the École Normale. In 1868 he became a professor at the Lycée of Bourges.
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Prof. E. Branly. Nature 145, 580–581 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145580b0
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