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Vladimir K. Zworykin

1888 - 1982

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Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (1888/1889 – July 29, 1982) was a Russian-American inventor, engineer, and pioneer of television technology. Zworykin invented a television transmitting and receiving system employing cathode-ray tubes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladimir K. Zworykin has received more than 518,134 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Vladimir K. Zworykin is the 86th most popular inventor (up from 108th in 2019), the 287th most popular biography from Russia (up from 380th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Inventor.

Vladimir K. Zworykin is most famous for inventing the cathode ray tube, or TV, in 1923.

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  • 520k

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  • 62.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Vladimir K. Zworykin ranks 86 out of 426. Before him are Bi Sheng, Thomas Savery, Sakichi Toyoda, Henry Bessemer, James Hargreaves, and Richard Arkwright. After him are Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Mary the Jewess, William Webb Ellis, Wolfgang von Kempelen, Henri Coandă, and Étienne-Jules Marey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Vladimir K. Zworykin ranks 40. Before him are Anton Makarenko, Inge Lehmann, Abul Kalam Azad, Katherine Mansfield, Georges Bernanos, and Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.. After him are Ossip Zadkine, Frances Marion, Josef Albers, Ernst Heinkel, Ernst Kretschmer, and Carin Göring. Among people deceased in 1982, Vladimir K. Zworykin ranks 48. Before him are Walther Wenck, Lee Strasberg, Varlam Shalamov, Meša Selimović, Walter Hallstein, and Peter Weiss. After him are Gershom Scholem, E. H. Carr, Sobhuza II, Takashi Shimura, Thelonious Monk, and Eduardo Frei Montalva.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir K. Zworykin ranks 287 out of 3,761. Before him are Varlam Shalamov (1907), Oleg Penkovsky (1919), Eugen Sandow (1867), Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia (1843), Eduard Limonov (1943), and Viktor Vasnetsov (1848). After him are Alexey Ekimov (1945), Alexej von Jawlensky (1864), Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874), Aleksey Kuropatkin (1848), Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1786), and Ivan II of Moscow (1326).

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Among INVENTORS In Russia

Among inventors born in Russia, Vladimir K. Zworykin ranks 2. Before him are Oleg Antonov (1906). After him are Alexander Stepanovich Popov (1859), Léon Theremin (1896), Nikolai Kardashev (1932), Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (1862), Lucien Olivier (1838), Pavel Yablochkov (1847), Ivan Kulibin (1735), Alexandre Alexeieff (1901), Ivan Polzunov (1728), and Rostislav Alexeyev (1916).

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