# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kalman-tihanyi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:10:59.799Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kalman-tihanyi"
name: "Kálmán Tihanyi"
slug: "kalman-tihanyi"
description: "Kálmán Tihanyi, or in English language technical literature often mentioned as Coloman Tihanyi or Koloman Tihanyi was a Hungarian physicist, electrical engineer and inventor. One of the early pioneers of electronic television, he made significant contributions to the development of cathode ray tubes (CRTs), which were bought and further developed by the Radio Corporation of America, and German companies Loewe and Fernseh AG. He invented and designed the world's first automatic pilotless aircraft in Great Britain. He is also known for the invention of the first infrared video camera in 1929, and coined the first flat panel plasma display in 1936. His Radioskop patent was recognized as a Document of Universal Significance by the UNESCO, and thus became part of the Memory of the World Programme on September 4, 2001."
tagline: "Hungarian engineer (1897–1947)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tihanyi_K%C3%A1lm%C3%A1n-1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1897-04-28"
deathDate: "1947-02-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.022304832713755
  historical:           13.35468133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Кальман Тіхань"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1lm%C3%A1n_Tihanyi"
    title: "Kálmán Tihanyi"
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    title: "Կալման Տիհանյի"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kálmán Tihanyi"
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    title: "Kálmán Tihanyi"
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    title: "Kálmán Tihanyi"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump