Pupin
Americannoun
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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
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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
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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
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