Vladimir K. Zworykin - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	29-July-1888
Place of Birth	Murom (Russia, Vladimir Oblast)
Nationality	United States of America, Russia
Also know as	V. K. Zworykin
Profession	Engineer, Inventor
Vladimir Kosmich 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.

Awards by Vladimir K. Zworykin

Check all the awards nominated and won by Vladimir K. Zworykin.

1966

National Medal of Science for Physical Science	(For major contributions to the instruments of science, engineering and television, and for his stimulation of the application fo engineering to medicine.)

1965

Faraday Medal

1951

IEEE Medal of Honor	(for his outstanding contributions to the concept and development of electronic apparatus basic to modern television, and his scientific achievements that led to fundamental advances in the application of electronics to communications, to industry and to national security)

1941

Rumford Prize	(For his invention of the iconoscope and other television devices.)

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