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Why did Ernest Rutherford not become a major developer of wireless telegraphy?
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While Ernest Rutherford developed a device capable of detecting electromagnetic waves that had commercial potential, he did not become a major developer of wireless telegraphy because he lacked the entrepreneurial skills and the intercontinental vision possessed by Guglielmo Marconi, who successfully pioneered the technology in 1896.1
Following his early experiments with wave detection, Rutherford shifted his focus toward the study of X-rays and ionization, eventually becoming the central figure in the study of radioactivity and the development of nuclear physics.21