Italy: Guglielmo Marconi, inventor and entrepreneur, best known for his development of the radiotelegraph system.
In 1909 shares the Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun (German inventor) “in recognition of their development of wireless telegraphy.”
Later in life in the ‘30s, becomes an apologist for Fascist Italy.
Born 1874 near Bologna, Italy; dies 1937 in Rome.