# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-szczepanik
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:51:41.994Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-szczepanik"
name: "Jan Szczepanik"
slug: "jan-szczepanik"
description: "Jan Szczepanik was a Polish inventor, with several hundred patents and over 50 discoveries to his name, many of which are still applied today, especially in the motion picture industry, as well as in photography and television. Some of his concepts helped the future evolution of TV broadcasting, such as the telectroscope or the wireless telegraph, which greatly affected the development of telecommunications. He died in Tarnów in the Second Polish Republic."
tagline: "Polish inventor (1872-1926)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_Szczepanik_-_autograph_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1872-06-13"
deathDate: "1926-04-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.23064133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump