Leonid Parfyonov produced a documentary film "Zvorykin-Muromets" about Zworykin
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Vladimir K. Zworykin
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin was a Russian-American inventor, engineer, and pioneer of television technology. Zworykin invented a television transmitting and receiving system employing cathode-ray tubes. He played a role in the practical development of television from the early thirties, including charge storage-type tubes, infrared image tubes and the electron microscope.
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science · Russian-American engineer (1888–1982) · engineer · physicist · inventor · electrical engineer · also Vladimir K. Zworykin, Vladimir Koz'mich Zworykin, Vladimir Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, Vladimir Kosmich Zworykin, Vladimir Kosmich Zvorykin
Born 17 July 1888 · Died 29 July 1982 · Q296545
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1995· 1 entry
University of Illinois Press published Zworykin, Pioneer of Television by Albert Abramson
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded Trustees Award (1984).
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1982· 1 entry
Died 1982-07-29.
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded Eduard Rhein Ring of Honor (1980).
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1977).
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded National Academy of Engineering Founders Award (1968).
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1967· 1 entry
Zworykin received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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1966· 2 entries
Won National Medal of Science (1966).
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The National Academy of Sciences, of which he was a member, awarded him the National Medal of Science for his contributions to the instruments of science, engineering, and television and for his stimulation of the applic
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1965· 1 entry
Won Faraday Medal (1965).
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1959· 1 entry
Awarded Maxwell Lecture (1959).
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1952· 1 entry
Won Edison Medal (1952).
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1951· 1 entry
Won IEEE Medal of Honor (1951).
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1950· 1 entry
Won Progress Medal (SMPTE) (1950).
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1948· 1 entry
Won IEEE Lamme Medal (1948).
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1947· 1 entry
Won Howard N. Potts Medal (1947).
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1941· 2 entries
Awarded Rumford Prize (1941).
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Was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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1935· 1 entry
The Reichspost started the public broadcastings using this tube and applying a 180 lines system
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1934· 4 entries
Awarded IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award (1934).
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Was a result of a collaboration between Zworykin and RCA's licensee Telefunken
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Awarding priority of the invention of the image dissector to Farnsworth
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The Morris Liebmann Memorial Prize from the Institute of Radio Engineers
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1932· 1 entry
“[t]he image iconoscope, presented in 1934, was a result of a collaboration between Zworykin and RCA's licensee Telefunken. ... In 1935 the Reichspost started the public broadcastings using this tube and applying a 180 lines system.”
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1931· 1 entry
It was decided that the new camera tube would be named the iconoscope
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1929· 1 entry
Zworykin returned to vibrating mirrors and facsimile transmission, filing patents describing these
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1928· 2 entries
For a color transmission version of his 1923 patent application; he also divided his original application in 1931, receiving a patent in 1935, while a second one was eventually issued in 1938 by the Court of Appeals on a
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And two patents for the 1923 application that was divided in 1931, although the equipment described was never successfully demonstrated
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1923· 1 entry
And was followed by a second application in 1925 of essentially the same content, but with minor changes and the addition of a Paget-type RGB raster screen for color transmission and reception
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1919· 1 entry
Via Vladivostok, then to the United States again on official duties from the Omsk government
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1916· 1 entry
Had two daughters (the couple separated in the early 1930s)
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1912· 1 entry
Studied at St. Petersburg Practical Institute of Technology (1912).
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1911· 1 entry
Based on an improved design, was the world's first demonstration of TV of any kind
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1907· 1 entry
Featuring a very early cathode-ray tube as a receiver, and a mechanical device as a transmitter
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1888· 2 entries
Born 1888-07-17.
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Or 1889, to the family of a prosperous merchants
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