Constantin Perskyi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Constantin Perskyi

Russian scientist

Date of Birth: 02-Jun-1854

Place of Birth: Tver Governorate

Date of Death: 05-Apr-1906

Profession: scientist, physicist

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Constantin Dmitrievich Perskyi (?????????? ?????????? ???????) (2 June 1854 – 5 April 1906) was a Russian scientist who is credited with coining the word television (télévision) in a paper that he presented in French at the 1st International Congress of Electricity, which ran from 18 to 25 August 1900 during the International World Fair in Paris.
At the time, he was Professor of Electricity at the Artillery Academy of Saint Petersburg.
His paper referred to the work of other experimenters in the field, including Paul Gottlieb Nipkow and Porfiry Ivanovich Bakhmetiev, who were attempting to use the photoelectric properties of selenium as the basis for their research in the field of image transmission.