Pupin

[ pyoo-peen, poo-peen ]

noun

1. Michael Id·vor·sky [id-, vawr, -skee], 1858–1935, U.S. inventor, physicist, and author, born in Serbia.

Example Sentences

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

Written in Cyrillic alphabet, the letters refer to Tesla’s relations with another prominent scientist of Serb origin, Mihajlo Pupin, Lazic said.

From Washington Times

AT&T asked engineers George Campbell and Michael Pupin to study Heaviside's papers on transmission lines.

From Nature

In 2014, Premier Li Keqiang inaugurated the €170 million bridge, built with a loan from the Export-Import Bank of China and named after the Serbian scientist Mihajlo Pupin.

From New York Times

Runner-up spot for an Evolutionary Biology image went to Fabio Pupin for this photo of a Bitis peringueyi side-winding adder in the sand of the Namib desert.

From BBC