INVENTOR

Paul Gottlieb Nipkow

1860 - 1940

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Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow (German: [ˈpaʊl ˈgɔtliːp ˈnɪpkɔv]; 22 August 1860 – 24 August 1940) was a German electrical engineer and inventor. He invented the Nipkow disk, which laid the foundation of television, since his disk was a fundamental component in the first televisions. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Gottlieb Nipkow has received more than 159,617 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Paul Gottlieb Nipkow is the 69th most popular inventor (down from 63rd in 2019), the 146th most popular biography from Poland (down from 115th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Inventor.

Nipkow is most famous for his invention of the Nipkow disk, which is an early type of television.

Memorability Metrics

  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 69.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow ranks 69 out of 426. Before him are Isaac Singer, Cornelis Drebbel, John Browning, Étienne Lenoir, John Deere, and Jacques Piccard. After him are Oleg Antonov, Josephine Cochrane, Les Paul, George Eastman, Claude Chappe, and Charles K. Kao.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow ranks 22. Before him are Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Niels Ryberg Finsen, Princess Charlotte of Prussia, J. M. Barrie, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, and Ernest Thompson Seton. After him are Hugo Wolf, John J. Pershing, Louis Wain, William Kemmler, Hjalmar Branting, and Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia. Among people deceased in 1940, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow ranks 23. Before him are Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Isaac Babel, Wladimir Köppen, John Buchan, Italo Balbo, and Spyridon Louis. After him are Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Gerda Wegener, Kyösti Kallio, Lluís Companys, Vsevolod Meyerhold, and Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow ranks 146 out of 1,694. Before him are Erwin von Witzleben (1881), Anna Anderson (1896), Zvi Zamir (1925), Johann Gustav Droysen (1808), Albrecht von Roon (1803), and Edward Sapir (1884). After him are Ferdinand Cohn (1828), Bronisław Komorowski (1952), Bolesław III Wrymouth (1086), Jerzy Grotowski (1933), Clara Immerwahr (1870), and Alfred Tarski (1901).

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Among INVENTORS In Poland

Among inventors born in Poland, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow ranks 1. After him are Gunther von Hagens (1945), Ottomar Anschütz (1846), and Kazimierz Prószyński (1875).

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