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Paul Gottlieb Nipkow

1860 - 1940

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Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow (German: [ˈpaʊl ˈgɔtliːp ˈnɪpkɔv]; 22 August 1860 – 24 August 1940) was a German electrical engineer and inventor. He invented the Nipkow disk, which laid the foundation of television, since his disk was a fundamental component in the first televisions. Hundreds of stations experimented with television broadcasting using his disk in the 1920s and 1930s, until it was superseded by all-electronic systems in the 1940s. Nipkow has been called the "father of television", together with other early figures of television history like Karl Ferdinand Braun. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Gottlieb Nipkow is the 83rd most popular inventor (down from 69th in 2019), the 181st most popular biography from Poland (down from 146th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Inventor.

Nipkow is most famous for his invention of the Nipkow disk, which is an early type of television.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow ranks 83 out of 426. Before him are James Naismith, John Browning, Alois Senefelder, Rowland Hill, Charles K. Kao, and Jacques de Vaucanson. After him are Oleg Antonov, Ray Tomlinson, Bi Sheng, Raymond Damadian, Joseph Pilates, and Alphonse Bertillon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow ranks 25. Before him are Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Hugo Wolf, Jane Addams, Hjalmar Branting, René Lalique, and John J. Pershing. After him are Louis Wain, Ernest Thompson Seton, William Kemmler, Vito Volterra, Marianne von Werefkin, and Otto Jespersen. Among people deceased in 1940, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow ranks 30. Before him are Gerda Wegener, Jesse Livermore, Kyösti Kallio, Lluís Companys, Eugène Dubois, and Italo Balbo. After him are Vito Volterra, Katharina Schratt, Édouard Vuillard, Vsevolod Meyerhold, John A. Hobson, and Robert Hichens.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow ranks 181 out of 1,694. Before him are Erich Mendelsohn (1887), Jerzy Grotowski (1933), Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1884), Günther Anders (1902), John I Albert (1459), and Stanislaus of Szczepanów (1030). After him are Alice Miller (1923), Robert Lewandowski (1988), Miroslav Klose (1978), Piast the Wheelwright (800), Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776), and Cymburgis of Masovia (1394).

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Among INVENTORS In Poland

Among inventors born in Poland, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow ranks 1. After him are Gunther von Hagens (1945), Ottomar Anschütz (1846), and Kazimierz Prószyński (1875).

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