# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kees-schouhamer-immink
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:49:32.707Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kees-schouhamer-immink"
name: "Kees Schouhamer Immink"
slug: "kees-schouhamer-immink"
description: "Kornelis Antonie \"Kees\" Schouhamer Immink is a Dutch engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur who pioneered and advanced the era of digital audio, video, and data recording, including popular digital media such as the compact disc (CD), DVD and Blu-ray disc. He has been a prolific and influential engineer, who holds more than 1,100 United States and international patents. A large portion of the commonly used audio and video playback and recording devices use technologies based on his work. His contributions to coding systems assisted the digital video and audio revolution, by enabling reliable data storage at information densities previously unattainable."
tagline: "Dutch electrical engineer, physicist, inventor and university teacher (born 1946)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Schouhamerimmink.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1946-12-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.780607871083786
  historical:           17.33611066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.turing-machines.com/indeximmink.html"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump