Paul Gottlieb Nipkow was born on August 22, 1860 in Poland. Best remembered for inventing a TV transmission device known as the Nipkow disk, this Prussian-born inventor ushered in the modern entertainment era.
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About
Best remembered for inventing a TV transmission device known as the Nipkow disk, this Prussian-born Inventor ushered in the modern entertainment era.
Before Fame
In his early years, he studied various sub-fields of physics under the prominent Scientists Adolf Slaby and Hermann von Helmholtz.
Trivia
Berlin's first public television station, Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow, was named in Nipkow's honor.
Family Life
A native of Lauenburg, Prussia (modern-day Poland), he was born into a family of Polish Kashubian heritage.
Associated With
In 1925, John Logie Baird became the first person to successfully produce television images using Nipkow's invention.