OLIVER HEAVISIDE

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Meaning:

English physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications; in 1902 (independent of A. E. Kennelly) he suggested the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1850-1925)

Synonyms:

Heaviside; Oliver Heaviside

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Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

electrical engineer (a person trained in practical applications of the theory of electricity)

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)

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