Vladimir Zworykin

Vladimir Kozmitch Zvorykine (in) is a Physicien and Engineer Russian, naturalié American in 1919 after the Russian Révolution, born the July 30th 1889 with Mourom in Russia and deceased the July 29th 1982 with Princeton with the the United States.

Biography

Student, it is one of the disciples of Boris Rosing, one of the inventors of the cathode tube.
En 1923, it deposits a patent on the Iconoscope.

Then, whereas he works at Westinghouse, one necessitates it more serious research , and it is thus the November 18th 1929 which he presents his first Téléviseur , the Kinéscope.

In 1931, it will improve and allow the industrial production of the tube analyzer of the video cameras (from now on replaced by sensors CCC). Philo Farnsworth had developed the camera tube, but financial means missed to him to proceed in an industrial way.

In 1933, it developed the viewfinder, tube camera which allowed great progress of cathodic television.

It then produced, in 1936, the first photomultipliers and improved the electron microscope, then was devoted to medical electronics.

Until its retirement in 1954, it will make research in the televisual field, in particular at RCA.

External bonds

Biography on the site '' Institute off Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. ''
Biography on the site of the Hebraic university of Jerusalem
Discussion with Vladimir Zworykin on July 4th, 1975

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