1860 - 1940
Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow (22 August 1860 – 24 August 1940) was a German technician 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 106,741 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Gottlieb Nipkow is the 75th most popular inventor (down from 72nd in 2019), the 135th most popular biography from Poland (down from 134th 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, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow ranks 75 out of 355. Before him are Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Thomas Savery, Jacques de Vaucanson, Alberto Santos-Dumont, Wolfgang von Kempelen, and Jacques Piccard. After him are Alois Senefelder, Edmund Cartwright, Henry Bessemer, John Harrison, Alphonse Bertillon, and Ray Tomlinson.
1859 - 1906
HPI: 73.12
Rank: 69
1650 - 1715
HPI: 73.03
Rank: 70
1709 - 1782
HPI: 72.71
Rank: 71
1873 - 1932
HPI: 72.67
Rank: 72
1734 - 1804
HPI: 72.37
Rank: 73
1922 - 2008
HPI: 72.31
Rank: 74
1860 - 1940
HPI: 72.27
Rank: 75
1771 - 1834
HPI: 72.09
Rank: 76
1743 - 1823
HPI: 72.07
Rank: 77
1813 - 1898
HPI: 71.88
Rank: 78
1693 - 1776
HPI: 71.77
Rank: 79
1853 - 1914
HPI: 71.51
Rank: 80
1941 - 2016
HPI: 71.36
Rank: 81
Among people born in 1860, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow ranks 19. Before him are Willem Einthoven, James Ensor, Anders Zorn, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Hugo Wolf, and Vittorio Emanuele Orlando. After him are Princess Charlotte of Prussia, René Lalique, Jane Addams, John J. Pershing, Ernest Thompson Seton, and Otto Jespersen. Among people deceased in 1940, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow ranks 24. Before him are Isaac Babel, Wladimir Köppen, Verner von Heidenstam, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Italo Balbo, and Julius Wagner-Jauregg. After him are Lluís Companys, John Buchan, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse, Frederick Cook, and Kyösti Kallio.
1860 - 1927
HPI: 76.16
Rank: 13
1860 - 1949
HPI: 75.91
Rank: 14
1860 - 1920
HPI: 74.36
Rank: 15
1860 - 1941
HPI: 73.43
Rank: 16
1860 - 1903
HPI: 73.09
Rank: 17
1860 - 1952
HPI: 72.86
Rank: 18
1860 - 1940
HPI: 72.27
Rank: 19
1860 - 1919
HPI: 71.93
Rank: 20
1860 - 1945
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 21
1860 - 1935
HPI: 71.68
Rank: 22
1860 - 1948
HPI: 71.41
Rank: 23
1860 - 1946
HPI: 71.34
Rank: 24
1860 - 1943
HPI: 70.92
Rank: 25
1894 - 1940
HPI: 73.83
Rank: 18
1846 - 1940
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 19
1859 - 1940
HPI: 72.92
Rank: 20
1880 - 1940
HPI: 72.91
Rank: 21
1896 - 1940
HPI: 72.74
Rank: 22
1857 - 1940
HPI: 72.30
Rank: 23
1860 - 1940
HPI: 72.27
Rank: 24
1882 - 1940
HPI: 71.81
Rank: 25
1875 - 1940
HPI: 71.49
Rank: 26
1874 - 1940
HPI: 71.35
Rank: 27
1868 - 1940
HPI: 70.69
Rank: 28
1865 - 1940
HPI: 70.66
Rank: 29
1873 - 1940
HPI: 70.03
Rank: 30
Among people born in Poland, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow ranks 135 out of 1,231. Before him are Władysław Sikorski (1881), Rochus Misch (1917), Arthur Liebehenschel (1901), Jerzy Grotowski (1933), Zdzisław Beksiński (1929), and Isabella Jagiellon (1519). After him are Alexander Jagiellon (1461), Mieszko I of Poland (940), Donald Tusk (1957), Samuel Reshevsky (1911), Christa Wolf (1929), and Olga Tokarczuk (1962).
1881 - 1943
HPI: 72.47
Rank: 129
1917 - 2013
HPI: 72.47
Rank: 130
1901 - 1948
HPI: 72.36
Rank: 131
1933 - 1999
HPI: 72.31
Rank: 132
1929 - 2005
HPI: 72.29
Rank: 133
1519 - 1559
HPI: 72.27
Rank: 134
1860 - 1940
HPI: 72.27
Rank: 135
1461 - 1506
HPI: 72.23
Rank: 136
940 - 992
HPI: 72.13
Rank: 137
1957 - Present
HPI: 72.12
Rank: 138
1911 - 1992
HPI: 71.98
Rank: 139
1929 - 2011
HPI: 71.80
Rank: 140
1962 - Present
HPI: 71.78
Rank: 141
Among inventors born in Poland, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow ranks 1. After him are Gunther von Hagens (1945) and Ottomar Anschütz (1846).
1860 - 1940
HPI: 72.27
Rank: 1
1945 - Present
HPI: 66.01
Rank: 2
1846 - 1907
HPI: 63.96
Rank: 3