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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 37,615 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Kazimierz Prószyński is the 346th most popular inventor, the 996th most popular biography from Poland and the 4th most popular Polish Inventor.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Kazimierz Prószyński ranks 346 out of 354. Before him are Arthur Wynne, Patricia Bath, Yvonne Brill, Gary Fisher, Kamil Tolon, and Granville Woods. After him are Alfred Carlton Gilbert, Karl Jatho, Andrew Viterbi, Dean Kamen, Harold Eugene Edgerton, and Robin Li.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Kazimierz Prószyński ranks 147. Before him are Isak Saba, Alexei Ivanovich Abrikosov, Jean Stern, Sigurður Eggerz, Charles Gondouin, and John Bray. After him are Dobri Hristov, Astrid Cleve, Herbert Jamison, Eugene Meyer, Wilfred Hudson Osgood, and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Among people deceased in 1945, Kazimierz Prószyński ranks 281. Before him are Stefan Mazurkiewicz, Giovanni Palatucci, Arthur Wynne, Sigurður Eggerz, Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov, and John Bray. After him are Charles Sands, Dorothea Köring, Hiram Johnson, Toon Oprinsen, Walter Frederick Gale, and Arthur Tell Schwab.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Kazimierz Prószyński ranks 996 out of 1,454. Before him are Waldemar Baszanowski (1935), Jan Sztolcman (1854), Eddi Arent (1925), Nathan Jacobson (1910), Lina Morgenstern (1830), and Antoni Lange (1862). After him are Anna Grodzka (1954), Mariusz Lewandowski (1979), Tadeusz Ślusarski (1950), Jerzy Kulej (1940), Kazimierz Brandys (1916), and Jacek Yerka (1952).

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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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