popov was born in a small village in the Urals Mountains. His father was a priest. He entered the University of Petersburg in 1877. After graduation in 1892, he stayed in the laboratory and taught at the Torpedo School of the Russian Navy in 1893.
popov invented the first radio receiver, a metal detector, in 1894. In 1895, he improved it into a device for receiving electromagnetic waves emitted by lightning. On May 7 of the same year, he demonstrated his receiving device at the Russian Society of Physics and Chemistry, which was later celebrated as "Radio Day" in Russia. In July, this device was installed in the weather station of the Forestry College in St. Petersburg. A few months later, a paper was published to show that this device can receive the signal of artificial vibration source. In March 1896, at the annual meeting of physics in Petersburg, the experiment of sending and receiving electromagnetic wave signals was carried out between two buildings in Petersburg University, which was earlier than the device patented by Italian physicist Marconi in June 1896.
in p>1898, he and the Russian navy conducted a communication experiment between the coast and warships at a distance of 1 kilometers, and in 1899, 5 kilometers of communication was realized. However, because Marconi obtained the patent first, it is generally believed that Marconi invented radio communication internationally, but Russians unanimously respect popov as the inventor of radio.
in p>19, under the guidance of popov, the Russian navy set up a radio station on the Gaolan Island in the Baltic Sea, and realized radio communication with the Finnish coastal city of kotka. (Finland belonged to tsarist Russia at that time), the first message was sent out on February 5th, and in April, the icebreaker Elmak went to Gaogolan Island to rescue the warships trapped by ice, and at the same time rescued 5 Finnish fishermen. The radio station had successfully sent 44 messages, and Marconi had just started his first communication experiment.
In p>191, popov was appointed as a professor at the Institute of Electric Technology, and in 195, he was elected as the director of the Institute. His health deteriorated at the end of the year, and he died of cerebral hemorrhage at the beginning of the following year.