1946 - Today
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 123,900 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Kees Schouhamer Immink is the 719th most popular physicist (down from 676th in 2019), the 846th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 744th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Dutch Physicist.
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Among physicists, Kees Schouhamer Immink ranks 719 out of 717. Before her are Robert Bacher, Edward C. Stone, C. R. Hagen, Howard P. Robertson, Ronald Drever, and John Pendry. After her are Erwin Hahn, Raymond Gosling, C. V. Boys, Rudolf Haag, Léon Rosenfeld, and Sidney Coleman.
1905 - 2004
HPI: 42.12
Rank: 713
1936 - Present
HPI: 42.06
Rank: 714
1937 - Present
HPI: 42.05
Rank: 715
1903 - 1961
HPI: 42.04
Rank: 716
1931 - 2017
HPI: 41.86
Rank: 717
1943 - Present
HPI: 41.85
Rank: 718
1946 - Present
HPI: 41.84
Rank: 719
1921 - 2016
HPI: 41.84
Rank: 720
1926 - 2015
HPI: 41.82
Rank: 721
1855 - 1944
HPI: 41.75
Rank: 722
1922 - 2016
HPI: 41.73
Rank: 723
1904 - 1974
HPI: 41.72
Rank: 724
1937 - 2007
HPI: 41.59
Rank: 725
Among people born in 1946, Kees Schouhamer Immink ranks 596. Before her are Stanisław Barańczak, Youssef Absi, Pavel Chukhray, Clive Bunker, Roar Grønvold, and Jimmy Buffett. After her are Loudon Wainwright III, Marv Wolfman, Kjell Johansson, Lidiya Alfeyeva, Richard Blumenthal, and Tony Robinson.
1946 - 2014
HPI: 42.10
Rank: 590
1946 - Present
HPI: 42.05
Rank: 591
1946 - Present
HPI: 42.04
Rank: 592
1946 - Present
HPI: 42.02
Rank: 593
1946 - Present
HPI: 41.97
Rank: 594
1946 - 2023
HPI: 41.91
Rank: 595
1946 - Present
HPI: 41.84
Rank: 596
1946 - Present
HPI: 41.78
Rank: 597
1946 - Present
HPI: 41.78
Rank: 598
1946 - 2011
HPI: 41.77
Rank: 599
1946 - 2022
HPI: 41.65
Rank: 600
1946 - Present
HPI: 41.64
Rank: 601
1946 - Present
HPI: 41.63
Rank: 602
Among people born in Netherlands, Kees Schouhamer Immink ranks 846 out of 1,427. Before her are Adriaan van Maanen (1884), Ton Roosendaal (1960), Meindert DeJong (1906), Andy van der Meyde (1979), Kevin Strootman (1990), and Jeroen Dijsselbloem (1966). After her are Jan Pijnenburg (1906), Frans Thijssen (1952), John Metgod (1958), Mounir El Hamdaoui (1984), Diederik Korteweg (1848), and Mbark Boussoufa (1984).
1884 - 1946
HPI: 42.10
Rank: 840
1960 - Present
HPI: 42.09
Rank: 841
1906 - 1991
HPI: 42.06
Rank: 842
1979 - Present
HPI: 42.02
Rank: 843
1990 - Present
HPI: 41.94
Rank: 844
1966 - Present
HPI: 41.87
Rank: 845
1946 - Present
HPI: 41.84
Rank: 846
1906 - 1979
HPI: 41.82
Rank: 847
1952 - Present
HPI: 41.77
Rank: 848
1958 - Present
HPI: 41.77
Rank: 849
1984 - Present
HPI: 41.76
Rank: 850
1848 - 1941
HPI: 41.74
Rank: 851
1984 - Present
HPI: 41.71
Rank: 852
Among physicists born in Netherlands, Kees Schouhamer Immink ranks 24. Before her are Wander Johannes de Haas (1878), Willem Hendrik Keesom (1876), Jan Burgers (1895), Balthasar van der Pol (1889), Antonius van den Broek (1870), and Abraham Pais (1918).
1878 - 1960
HPI: 48.87
Rank: 18
1876 - 1956
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 19
1895 - 1981
HPI: 46.78
Rank: 20
1889 - 1959
HPI: 46.55
Rank: 21
1870 - 1926
HPI: 44.94
Rank: 22
1918 - 2000
HPI: 44.28
Rank: 23
1946 - Present
HPI: 41.84
Rank: 24