Paul Gottlieb Nipkow

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. Hundreds of stations experimented with television broadcasting using his disk in the 1920s and 1930s, until it was superseded by all-electronic systems in the 1940s.

Paul Gottlieb Nipkow
Nipkow in about 1884
Born(1860-08-22)22 August 1860
Died24 August 1940(1940-08-24) (aged 80)
NationalityGerman
OccupationEngineer
Engineering career
ProjectsNipkow disk
Significant advanceTelevision

Nipkow has been called the "father of television", together with other early figures of television history like Karl Ferdinand Braun.

The first public television station in the world, Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow, was named in his honour.

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