List of Famous people with last name Nipkow

Paul Gottlieb Nipkow

First Name Paul

Last Name Nipkow

Born on August 22, 1860

Died on August 24, 1940 (aged 80)

Born in Poland, Pomeranian Voivodeship

Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow was a German technician 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 Hundreds of stations experimented with television broadcasting using his disk in the 1920s and 1930s, until it was superseded by all-electronic systems in the 1940s.

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