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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 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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  • 17

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  • 2.81

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Kees Schouhamer Immink ranks 719 out of 717Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Kees Schouhamer Immink ranks 596Before 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.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Kees Schouhamer Immink ranks 846 out of 1,427Before 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).

Among PHYSICISTS In Netherlands

Among physicists born in Netherlands, Kees Schouhamer Immink ranks 24Before 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).