Stefan Kudelski

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| name = Stefan Kudelski

| image = Stefan Kudelski by Erling Mandelmann.jpg

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| caption = (Photo by Erling Mandelmann)

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1931|8|27|df=y}}

| birth_place = Warsaw, Poland

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|1|26|1931|8|27|df=y}}

| death_place = Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland

| known_for = Creating the Nagra audio recorders

| occupation = Founder of the Kudelski Group (1951–1991)

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Stefan Kudelski (27 August 1931 – 26 January 2013)[http://www.nagra.com/cms/Death-of-Mr-Stefan-Kudelski.html Death of Mr Stefan Kudelski ], Nagra was a Polish audio engineer known for creating the Nagra series of professional audio recorders.

Life and career

Stefan Kudelski was born in Warsaw into a family with engineering background. In September 1939 the family fled{{citation needed|date=March 2014}} Poland during the Nazi German and Soviet Invasion of Poland. They escaped to Romania, then moved to Hungary, and on to France. When the Germans occupied southern Vichy France, the family escaped to Switzerland in 1943. He studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and constructed his first tape recorder there, as a student project. The recorder was supposed to drive a machine tool, but was good enough to record audio as well.

1951 – Kudelski built his first Nagra tape recorder
1957 – The Nagra III, a transistorized tape recorder with electronic speed control, is launched

Kudelski received many awards during his career:

Academy Awards: Scientific or Technical Award (1965, 1977 and 1978) Academy Awards Data Base [http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1359943718569]{{dead link|date=March 2018|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}} "Stefan Kudelski"
Gordon E. Sawyer Award (1990)
Emmy Awards (1984 and 1986) NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES,

Outstanding Achievement in Technical/Engineering Development Awards {{cite web |url=http://www.emmyonline.org/tech/applications/engineering_award_winners_rev8.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-10-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131008150929/http://www.emmyonline.org/tech/applications/engineering_award_winners_rev8.pdf |archive-date=2013-10-08 }} "page 5"

Gold Medals from L. Warner, AES (1984), Lyra and Eurotechnica.

File:Monument to Kudelski at Polish Film Institute.jpg

File:Monument to Kudelski at Polish Film Institute- detail.JPG

Stefan Kudelski retired in 1991, and was succeeded by his son, André, as a Chairman and CEO of the Kudelski Group.

He died on 26 January 2013 in Lausanne, Switzerland.{{cite news | url = https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-29/stefan-kudelski-sound-recording-equipment-inventor-dies-at-84.html | title = Stefan Kudelski, Sound-Recording Equipment Inventor, Dies at 84 | author = Thomas Mulier | date = Jan 28, 2013 | journal = Bloomberg }}

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20040813203253/http://www.fsfl.se/backspegel/kudelski.html June 1966 American Cinematographer article about Kudelski's first Oscar]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20041024053542/http://claude.gendre.9online.fr/nagra.htm French language article about Kudelski's work]
[http://www.nagra.com/aboutSKudelski.php Short biography at nagra.com]
[https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20040302130000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/13071/20040303-0000/www.acmi.net.au/AIC/HIST_REC_NAGRA.html Nagra history]{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
[http://www.pljournal.com/film/kudelski-wings-award-polish-film-festival.html Wings Award]
[http://www.aes.org/awards AES gold medal Award]

Category:1931 births

Category:2013 deaths

Category:Academy Award for Technical Achievement winners

Category:École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne alumni

Category:Engineers from Warsaw

Category:Polish emigrants to Switzerland

Category:Polish inventors

Category:Recipients of the Gordon E. Sawyer Award

Category:Recipients of the Scientific and Technical Academy Award of Merit