Goldmark, Peter Carl
(1906–1977)
Goldmark, Peter Carl (2 Dec 1906–8 Dec 1977) Engineer and inventor, born in Budapest. He was a grandnephew of the composer Carl Goldmark, and son of a chemist and inventor. His interests combined music and science; he played piano and cello, and set up a chemistry laboratory at home. He studied in Berlin and took a doctorate in physics in Vienna, beginning the study of television that occupied much of his life. He worked as an engineer in Britain, then in 1933 moved to the U.S., becoming…