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)

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 Hundreds of stations experimented with television broadcasting using his disk in the 1920s and 1930s, until it was superseded by all-electronic systems in the 1940s.

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