Peter Goldmark

Peter Goldmark was a Hungarian-American engineer who led research at CBS Laboratories from the late 1930s onward. He developed an early field-sequential color television system, which the Federal Communications Commission briefly approved as the American color broadcast standard around 1950 before it was superseded by RCA's incompatible-with-black-and-white-sets rival system. Goldmark is also credited with developing the long-playing (LP) vinyl phonograph record, introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, which allowed far more music to be recorded on a single disc than earlier formats and became the dominant format for recorded music for decades.