# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-gottlieb-nipkow
# Generated: 2026-08-15T13:00:38.153Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-gottlieb-nipkow"
name: "Paul Gottlieb Nipkow"
slug: "paul-gottlieb-nipkow"
description: "Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow 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. Hundreds of stations experimented with television broadcasting using his disk in the 1920s and 1930s, until it was superseded by all-electronic systems in the 1940s."
tagline: "German technician and inventor (1860–1940)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul-nipkow.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: "1860-08-22"
deathDate: "1940-08-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.82783333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump