PHYSICIST

Kees Schouhamer Immink

1946 - Today

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Kornelis Antonie "Kees" Schouhamer Immink (born 18 December 1946) is a Dutch engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur, who pioneered and advanced the era of digital audio, video, and data recording, including popular digital media such as compact disc (CD), DVD and Blu-ray disc. He has been a prolific and influential engineer, who holds more than 1100 U.S. and international patents. A large portion of the commonly used audio and video playback and recording devices use technologies based on his work. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kees Schouhamer Immink has received more than 142,039 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Kees Schouhamer Immink is the 749th most popular physicist (down from 719th in 2019), the 908th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 844th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Dutch Physicist.

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  • 21

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  • 2.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Kees Schouhamer Immink ranks 749 out of 851. Before her are George F. R. Ellis, William Stanley Jr., Ernst Ising, Frank Benford, Gilbert Walker, and Juan Martín Maldacena. After her are Miguel Alcubierre, Arthur Schuster, Grigory Landsberg, Lene Hau, Conyers Herring, and Bengt Edlén.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Kees Schouhamer Immink ranks 635. Before her are Frank Kabui, Zeca, Shujaat Hussain, Pierfranco Vianelli, Howard Kendall, and Abdallah Lamrani. After her are John B. Taylor, Marcial Pina, Dean Cundey, Peter Sutherland, Terry Kath, and Ma Kai.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Kees Schouhamer Immink ranks 908 out of 1,646. Before her are Nel van Vliet (1926), Ronald Brautigam (1954), Lou Tellegen (1881), Jaap van Zweden (1960), Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink (1978), and Xavi Simons (2003). After her are Wopke Hoekstra (1975), Johan van der Velde (1956), Dido Havenaar (1957), Arjen Anthony Lucassen (1960), Angerfist (1981), and Angela Visser (1966).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Netherlands

Among physicists born in Netherlands, Kees Schouhamer Immink ranks 24. Before her are Abraham Pais (1918), Willem Hendrik Keesom (1876), Dirk Coster (1889), Antonius van den Broek (1870), Balthasar van der Pol (1889), and Jan Burgers (1895).

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