Vladimir K. Zworykin is remembered in technology for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Vladimir K. Zworykin as Russian-American engineer (1888–1982).
Vladimir K. Zworykin was born at Murom in 1889. His recorded nationality is the Russian Empire. He was educated at St. Petersburg Practical Institute of Technology.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, national institutions, mass media and mass politics changed both the scale of a career and its risks.
He worked as engineer, physicist and inventor.
Technology is judged by adoption: an invention nobody uses is a curiosity.
His recorded fields of work are electrical engineering, physics and technology of television.
Recognition followed: National Medal of Science (1966).
Working from the Russian Empire shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Vladimir K. Zworykin died in 1982, aged 93. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.
Achievements
- National Medal of Science — 1966
- Educated at St. Petersburg Practical Institute of Technology
- Worked as engineer, physicist and inventor
