Guglielmo Marconi was born in Bologna, Italy, on April 25, 1874. An inquisitive scientist and researcher, at the age of 35 Marconi would earn the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics (shared with Karl Ferdinand Braun), for his contributions to wireless telegraphy.

That man, Guglielmo Marconi, was already known worldwide as the celebrity inventor whose wireless technology was able to send messages across entire oceans. Print April 13, 2012, 10:20 PM UTC.