Édouard Branly

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What Wikipedia says

Édouard Eugène Désiré Branly (, BRAN-lee; French: [edwaʁ bʁɑ̃li]; 23 October 1844 – 24 March 1940) was a French physicist and inventor known for his early involvement in wireless telegraphy and his invention of the coherer in 1890.

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