Stefan Kudelski - Definition and Overview

Stefan Kudelski is a Swiss audio engineer of Polish origins, famous for creating the top quality Nagra series of professional audio recorders.

He was born in Warsaw in February 27, 1929 in a family with engineering background. In 1939 the family fled the war, moving to Hungary, France and later to Switzerland. 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 builds his first Nagra tape recorder
• 1957 - The Nagra III, a transistorized tape recorder with electronic speed control, is launched

Stefan Kudelski received many awards during his career: Academy Awards (Oscars™) in 1965, 1977, 1978 and 1983, two Emmy Awards and Gold Medals from L. Warner, AES (Audio Engineering Society), Lyra and Eurotechnica.

External links

• June 1966 American Cinematographer article about Kudelski's first Oscar (http://www.fsfl.se/backspegel/kudelski.html)
• French language article about Kudelski's work (http://claude.gendre.9online.fr/nagra.htm)
• Short biography at nagra.com (http://www.nagra.com/aboutSKudelski.php)
• Kudelski's Oscars (http://theoscarsite.com/whoswho4/kudelski_s.htm)
• Kudelski's 1990 Oscar (http://www.oscars.org/academyawards/awards/63_kudelski.html)
• Nagra history (http://www.acmi.net.au/AIC/HIST_REC_NAGRA.html)