History of Science and Engineering Annotation << Back INVENTOR OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION ALEXANDR POPOV AND INITIAL SCIENTISTS OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS RESEARCH IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE V.A. Alekseeva, Yu.B. Zubarev, O.A. Grigoriev Professor Aleksandr Popov, the principal inventor of the practical radio, had an influence on the first biomedical researches of the electromagnetic field in the Russian Empire. The results of analyses of Popov’s family structure and professional contacts, show group of doctors of medicine, physiologists, electrophysicists, who worked together in research on the bioeffects of "electromagnetism" in the late 19th - early 20th centuries. Family and professional contacts were helpful for creating of the first dissertation in the Russian Empire on the research of the effect of an electromagnetic field on a persons (P.I. Izhevsky, Imperial Military Medical Academy, 1900) and for the first dissertation on medicine in the Imperial Tomsk University, devoted to the action of "the electricity at distance" on alive biological objects (N.S. Spassky, 1901). Keywords: Aleksandr Popov, family, electromagnetic field, physiology, medico-biological effects, research, experimental, spark transmitter, Russian Empire. DOI: 10.25791/intstg.11.2020.1237 Pp. 10-18.