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Pupin

American  
[pyoo-peen, poo-peen] / pyuˈpin, ˈpu pin /

noun

  1. Michael Idvorsky 1858–1935, U.S. inventor, physicist, and author, born in Serbia.


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In November 1949 Chien-Shiung Wu and her graduate student, Irving Shaknov, descended to a laboratory below Columbia University's Pupin Hall.

From Scientific American • Mar. 16, 2023

HG Wells predicted nuclear weapons 30 years before it became a reality But there were bad misses - certainly for Michael Pupin, the physicist - who predicted the equitable distribution of wealth.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2010

Michael Idvorsky Pupin, 73, Columbia electro-mechanist, the John Fritz Medal; for his accomplishments in electromagnetism, particularly long distance telephony.

From Time Magazine Archive

Today Cooper Union is less renowned than in Cooper's day, when it produced such illustrious bearer-backers of the world's evils as Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Inventor Michael Pupin, Unionist Samuel Gompers.

From Time Magazine Archive

United States Letters Patent were issued to Professor Pupin on June 19, 1900, upon his practical method of reducing attenuation of electrical waves.

From Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by Miller, Kempster