# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/constantin-perskyi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:37:04.343Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/constantin-perskyi"
name: "Constantin Perskyi"
slug: "constantin-perskyi"
description: "Constantin Dmitrievich Perskyi was a Russian scientist who is credited with coining the word television (télévision) in a paper that he presented in French at the 1st International Congress of Electricity, which ran from 18 to 25 August 1900 during the International World Fair in Paris. At the time, he was Professor of Electricity at the Artillery Academy of Saint Petersburg. His paper referred to the work of other experimenters in the field, including Paul Gottlieb Nipkow and Porfiry Ivanovich Bakhmetiev, who were attempting to use the photoelectric properties of selenium as the basis for their research in the field of image transmission."
tagline: "Russian scientist"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1854-06-02"
deathDate: "1906-04-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.68
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.685530666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin_Perski"
    title: "Constantin Perski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Dmitrijewitsch_Perski"
    title: "Konstantin Dmitrijewitsch Perski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin_Perskyi"
    title: "Constantin Perskyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BA%B7%E6%96%AF%E5%9D%A6%E4%B8%81%C2%B7%E6%B3%A2%E6%96%AF%E5%9F%BA"
    title: "康斯坦丁·波斯基"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9%2C_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%94%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Перский, Константин Дмитриевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Perski"
    title: "Konstantin Perski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2995013"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump