| Vladimir Zworykin AKA Vladimir Kozma Zworykin Born: 30-Jul-1889
Birthplace: Murom, Russia
Died: 29-Jul-1982
Location of death: Princeton, NJ
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Inventor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Patented color televison Military service: Russian Army (Signal Corps, WWI) Father: (merchant)
Wife: Tatiana Vasilieff (m. 1916)
Wife: Katherine Polevitsky (m. 1951)
University: Engineering, St. Petersburg Institute of Technology (1912)
University: Collège de France
University: PhD, University of Pittsburgh (1926)
Administrator: Director, Medical Electronics Center, Rockefeller University (1954-62)
RCA VP (1947-54)
RCA (1929-47)
Westinghouse Researcher
Rumford Prize 1941
French Legion of Honor 1948
IEEE Medal of Honor 1951
IEEE Edison Medal 1952
National Medal of Science 1967
Naturalized US Citizen 1924
National Academy of Engineering
Russian Ancestry
Author of books:
Photocells and Their Application (1931)
Television: The Electronics of Image Transmission (1941)
Electron Optics and the Electron Microscope (1945)
Photoelectricity and Its Applications (1949)
Television in Science and Industry (1958)
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