Who is the greatest pioneer of wireless communication?

The argument over who invented radio ran through courtrooms and a posthumous Supreme Court ruling. These sixteen all have a claim to part of it.

1. 1
   Guglielmo Marconi

   Built the first commercial wireless telegraph service and shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Karl Ferdinand Braun

   Shared the 1909 Nobel with Marconi for the coupled circuits that gave radio its range.
   874pts
3. 3
   Martin Cooper

   Made the first handheld mobile phone call, on a Manhattan pavement in 1973.
   753pts
4. 4
   Heinrich Hertz

   Generated and detected radio waves in the laboratory, proving Maxwell right.
   668pts
5. 5
   Nikola Tesla

   Demonstrated radio-controlled apparatus in 1898; the US Supreme Court restored his radio priority in 1943.
   565pts
6. 6
   Alexander Popov

   Russian physicist who demonstrated a radio receiver in 1895, still credited as the inventor in Russia.
   565pts
7. 7
   Claude Shannon

   Set the mathematical limit on what any wireless channel can carry.
   565pts
8. 8
   Jagadish Chandra Bose

   Demonstrated millimetre-wave transmission in Calcutta in 1895 and refused to patent it.
   565pts
9. 9
   Thomas Edison

   Patented an induction-based wireless telegraph in 1885 and sold the rights to Marconi.
   439pts
10. 10
    Edwin Armstrong

    Invented the regenerative circuit, the superheterodyne receiver and FM broadcasting.
    439pts
11. 11
    Lee de Forest

    Invented the triode vacuum tube that made radio amplification possible.
    439pts
12. 12
    Oliver Lodge

    Demonstrated wireless signalling in 1894 and patented the tuning that made stations separable.
    439pts
13. 13
    Ernst Alexanderson

    Built the high-frequency alternator that carried the first transatlantic voice transmissions.
    439pts
14. 14
    James Clerk Maxwell

    Predicted electromagnetic waves mathematically two decades before anyone made one.
    282pts
15. 15
    Reginald Fessenden

    Transmitted the first voice and music broadcast by radio on Christmas Eve 1906.
    282pts
16. 16
    Hedy Lamarr

    Co-patented frequency hopping in 1942, an idea now inside Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
    282pts