Nipkow biography

German electrical engineer and inventor (1860–1940)

Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow (German:[ˈpaʊlˈgɔtliːpˈnɪpkɔv]; 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Hundreds of stations experimented with television broadcasting using his disk in the 1920s and 1930s, until it was superseded by all-electronic systems in the 1940s.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]

Beginnings

Nipkow was born in Lauenburg (now Lębork) in the Prussianprovince of Pomerania, now part of Poland.

While at school in neighbouring Neustadt (now Wejherowo),