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Kazimierz Prószyński

1875 - 1945

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Kazimierz Prószyński (4 April 1875 – 13 March 1945) was a Polish inventor active in the field of cinematography. He patented his first film camera, called Pleograph, before the Lumière brothers, and later went on to improve the cinema projector for the Gaumont company. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kazimierz Prószyński has received more than 39,896 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Kazimierz Prószyński is the 357th most popular inventor (down from 346th in 2019), the 1,080th most popular biography from Poland (down from 996th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Polish Inventor.

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  • 2.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Kazimierz Prószyński ranks 357 out of 426. Before him are Robert Whitehead, Jerry Lawson, Frank J. Sprague, Edward Craven Walker, Peter Madsen, and Almon Brown Strowger. After him are František Křižík, George Stibitz, John Milne, Elizabeth Holmes, Isaac Pitman, and Johan Vaaler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Kazimierz Prószyński ranks 160. Before him are Vasily Kachalov, Alexei Ivanovich Abrikosov, Alexandros Diomidis, Dobri Hristov, Emīls Dārziņš, and Maurice Hemelsoet. After him are George Larner, Johan Edman, José Santos Chocano, Harriet Quimby, Herbert Jamison, and Tomás Berreta. Among people deceased in 1945, Kazimierz Prószyński ranks 317. Before him are Stefan Mazurkiewicz, Vikenty Veresaev, John Bray, Hélène de Pourtalès, Anders Larsson, and Giovanni Palatucci. After him are Adolf Bartels, Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer, Kārlis Skalbe, Ferdinand Kiefler, Boris Galerkin, and Petar Gabrovski.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Kazimierz Prószyński ranks 1,080 out of 1,694. Before him are Zbigniew Zamachowski (1961), Jadwiga Barańska (1935), Grzegorz Schetyna (1963), Jan Twardowski (1915), Tadeusz Banachiewicz (1882), and Janusz Wojciechowski (1954). After him are Jerzy Kulej (1940), Maria Wittek (1899), Ernestine Rose (1810), Jerzy Pawłowski (1932), Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer (1858), and Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925).

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Among INVENTORS In Poland

Among inventors born in Poland, Kazimierz Prószyński ranks 4. Before him are Paul Gottlieb Nipkow (1860), Gunther von Hagens (1945), and Ottomar Anschütz (1846).

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