Paul Gottlieb Nipkow

Paul Gottlieb Nipkow
Nipkow, c. 1884
Born
Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow

(1860-08-22)22 August 1860
Lauenburg, Province of Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia
(now Lębork, Poland)
Died24 August 1940(1940-08-24) (aged 80)
Berlin, Nazi Germany
(now Germany)
OccupationEngineer
Notable workNipkow disk
Engineering career
DisciplineElectrical engineering
Significant advanceTelevision

Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow (22 August 1860 – 24 August 1940) was a German electrical engineer and inventor. He invented the Nipkow disk, which laid the foundation of television, since his disk was a fundamental component in the first televisions.[1] Hundreds of stations experimented with television broadcasting using his disk in the 1920s and 1930s, until it was superseded by all-electronic systems in the 1940s.

Nipkow has been called the "father of television",[2][3] together with other early figures of television history like Karl Ferdinand Braun.

The first regular television service in the world, Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow, was named in his honour.[4]

  1. ^ "Nipkow-Scheibe". DPMA.de (in German). Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt. 2 August 2019. Archived from the original on 3 August 2019. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  2. ^ "Zum Gedenken an Paul Nipkow – B.Z. – die Stimme Berlins". 22 August 2017.
  3. ^ "Nipkow 23.81930".
  4. ^ Schuldt, Rainer (22 March 2015). "Es begann in der Fernsehstube: TV wird 80 Jahre alt". Computer Bild (in German). Retrieved 29 March 2020.