Mihailo Pupin
| Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin | |
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Pupin around 1890
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| Born |
4 October 1858 village of Idvor in Banat, Military Frontier, Austrian Empire (now in Serbia) |
| Died | 12 March 1935 (aged 76) New York City, New York, USA |
| Nationality | Serbian |
| Citizenship | Serbian, American |
| Alma mater | Columbia College |
| Known for | Long-distance telephone communication |
| Awards |
Elliott Cresson Medal (1905) IEEE Medal of Honor (1924) Edison Medal(1920) Pulitzer Prize (1924) John Fritz Medal (1932) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics, Invention |
| Doctoral students | Robert Andrews Millikan, Edwin Howard Armstrong |
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Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Ph.D., LL.D. (Serbian Cyrillic: Михајло Идворски Пупин, pronounced [miˈxǎjlo ˈîdʋoɾski ˈpǔpin]; 4 October 1858 – 12 March 1935), also known as Michael I. Pupin was a Serbian American physicist and physical chemist. Pupin is best known for his numerous patents, including a means of greatly extending the range of long-distance telephone communication by placing loading coils (of wire) at predetermined intervals along the transmitting wire (known as "pupinization"). Pupin was a founding member of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) on 3 March 1915, which later became NASA. In 1924 won the Pulitzer Prize for his autobiography. Pupin was elected president or vice-president of the highest scientific and technical institutions, such as the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the New York Academy of Sciences, the Radio Institute of America, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was also a honorary consul of Serbia in the USA from 1912 to 1920.
Mihajlo Pupin was born on 4 October (22 September, OS) 1858 in the village of Idvor (in the modern-day municipality of Kovačica, Serbia) in Banat, in the Military Frontier in the Austrian Empire. He always remembered the words of his mother and cited her in his autobiography, From Immigrant to Inventor (1925):
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