CHEMIST

Jan Szczepanik

1872 - 1926

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Jan Szczepanik (June 13, 1872 – April 18, 1926) was a Polish inventor, with several hundred patents and over 50 discoveries to his name, many of which are still applied today, especially in the motion picture industry, as well as in photography and television. Some of his concepts helped the future evolution of TV broadcasting, such as the telectroscope (an apparatus for distant reproduction of images and sound using electricity) or the wireless telegraph, which greatly affected the development of telecommunications. He died in Tarnów in the Second Polish Republic. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Szczepanik is the 507th most popular chemist (down from 475th in 2019), the 735th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 701st in 2019) and the 5th most popular Ukrainian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Jan Szczepanik ranks 507 out of 602. Before him are Pierre Adet, Johannes Thiele, John Walker, Julius Wilbrand, Karen Wetterhahn, and Ludwig Knorr. After him are Helen Murray Free, Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig, William Hallowes Miller, Hermann Wilhelm Vogel, Luis E. Miramontes, and Zdenko Hans Skraup.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Jan Szczepanik ranks 151. Before him are Wilfred Baddeley, Teffi, Barbu Știrbey, Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed, Zane Grey, and Nikola Mushanov. After him are Feliciano Viera, Max Beerbohm, Oswaldo Cruz, Otto Witte, Julio Acosta García, and Henri Hubert. Among people deceased in 1926, Jan Szczepanik ranks 99. Before him are Thomas Moran, Barbara La Marr, Georges Vézina, Giovanni Amendola, Eliška Krásnohorská, and Friedrich Kluge. After him are Olle Lanner, Ernest Belfort Bax, Hermann Bollé, Dmitry Furmanov, Jan Kasprowicz, and Carlo Luigi Spegazzini.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Jan Szczepanik ranks 735 out of 1,365. Before him are Stanisław Mazur (1905), Ossip Bernstein (1882), Klavdiya Shulzhenko (1906), Jascha Horenstein (1898), Nikolai Gikalo (1897), and Moriz Rosenthal (1862). After him are Yuri Malenchenko (1961), Alexander Litovchenko (1835), Mikhail Kheraskov (1733), Alexander Zakharchenko (1976), Abraham Lempel (1936), and Anna Muzychuk (1990).

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Among CHEMISTS In Ukraine

Among chemists born in Ukraine, Jan Szczepanik ranks 5. Before him are Roald Hoffmann (1937), Erwin Chargaff (1905), Jacques Bergier (1912), and Ivan Horbachevsky (1854).

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