Paul Gottlieb Nipkow

Entrepreneur

Birthday August 22, 1860

Birth Sign Leo

Birthplace Poland

DEATH DATE Aug 24, 1940 (80)

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Numerology: 9

About

Best remembered for inventing a TV transmission device known as the Nipkow disk, this Prussian-born inventor ushered in the modern entertainment era.

Before Fame

In his early years, he studied various sub-fields of physics under the prominent scientists Adolf Slaby and Hermann von Helmholtz.

Trivia

Berlin's first public television station, Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow, was named in Nipkow's honor.

Family Life

A native of Lauenburg, Prussia (modern-day Poland), he was born into a family of Polish Kashubian heritage.

Associated With

In 1925, John Logie Baird became the first person to successfully produce television images using Nipkow's invention.

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