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Paul Gottlieb Nipkow

German technician and inventor

1860 - 1940

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His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Gottlieb Nipkow is the 83rd most popular inventor (down from 69th in 2024), the 181st most popular biography from Poland (down from 146th 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.

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Among Inventors

Among inventors, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow ranks 83 out of 426Before him are James Naismith, John Browning, Alois Senefelder, Rowland Hill, Charles K. Kao, and Jacques de Vaucanson. After him are Oleg Antonov, Ray Tomlinson, Bi Sheng, Raymond Damadian, Joseph Pilates, and Alphonse Bertillon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow ranks 25Before him are Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Hugo Wolf, Jane Addams, Hjalmar Branting, René Lalique, and John J. Pershing. After him are Louis Wain, Ernest Thompson Seton, William Kemmler, Vito Volterra, Marianne von Werefkin, and Otto Jespersen. Among people deceased in 1940, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow ranks 30Before him are Gerda Wegener, Jesse Livermore, Kyösti Kallio, Lluís Companys, Eugène Dubois, and Italo Balbo. After him are Vito Volterra, Katharina Schratt, Édouard Vuillard, Vsevolod Meyerhold, John A. Hobson, and Robert Hichens.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow ranks 181 out of NaNBefore him are Erich Mendelsohn (1887), Jerzy Grotowski (1933), Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1884), Günther Anders (1902), John I Albert (1459), and Stanislaus of Szczepanów (1030). After him are Alice Miller (1923), Robert Lewandowski (1988), Miroslav Klose (1978), Piast the Wheelwright (800), Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776), and Cymburgis of Masovia (1394).

Among Inventors In Poland

Among inventors born in Poland, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow ranks 1After him are Gunther von Hagens (1945), Antoni Patek (1812), Ottomar Anschütz (1846), and Kazimierz Prószyński (1875).

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