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Vladimir K. Zworykin

1888 - 1982

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Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (1888/1889 – July 29, 1982) was a Russian-American inventor, engineer, and pioneer of television technology. Zworykin invented a television transmitting and receiving system employing cathode-ray tubes. He played a role in the practical development of television from the early thirties, including charge storage-type tubes, infrared image tubes and the electron microscope. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vladimir K. Zworykin is the 110th most popular inventor (down from 86th in 2019), the 386th most popular biography from Russia (down from 287th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Russian Inventor.

Vladimir K. Zworykin is most famous for inventing the cathode ray tube, or TV, in 1923.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Vladimir K. Zworykin ranks 110 out of 426. Before him are Kōnosuke Matsushita, Henry Bessemer, Étienne-Jules Marey, Orban, Walter Hunt, and Abraham-Louis Breguet. After him are William Webb Ellis, Johann Philipp Reis, David Bushnell, Josiah Warren, Clément Ader, and Jacque Fresco.

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Among people born in 1888, Vladimir K. Zworykin ranks 47. Before him are Katherine Mansfield, Josef Albers, Ernst Kretschmer, August Kubizek, Oskar Schlemmer, and Ernst Heinkel. After him are Max Steiner, Nuri al-Said, Irving Berlin, Fritz Klein, Georgios Papandreou, and John Foster Dulles. Among people deceased in 1982, Vladimir K. Zworykin ranks 58. Before him are Meša Selimović, John Cheever, Shiro Teshima, Gershom Scholem, Takashi Shimura, and Mario Del Monaco. After him are Sobhuza II, Kristján Eldjárn, Giovanni Benelli, Colin Chapman, Adolf Heusinger, and Marty Feldman.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir K. Zworykin ranks 386 out of 3,761. Before him are Vladimir Markovnikov (1838), Lev Kuleshov (1899), Sergei Skripal (1951), Ilya Ulyanov (1831), Leonid Andreyev (1871), and Anna Dostoevskaya (1846). After him are Andre Geim (1958), Ramzan Kadyrov (1976), Andrei Bely (1880), Aleksandr Karelin (1967), Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923), and Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia (1882).

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Among INVENTORS In Russia

Among inventors born in Russia, Vladimir K. Zworykin ranks 4. Before him are Léon Theremin (1896), Oleg Antonov (1906), and Alexander Stepanovich Popov (1859). After him are Nikolai Kardashev (1932), Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (1862), Lucien Olivier (1838), Pavel Yablochkov (1847), Alexandre Alexeieff (1901), Oleg Losev (1903), Ivan Kulibin (1735), and Rostislav Alexeyev (1916).

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