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
Dr. Michael I. Pupin of Columbia University addressed the visitors, with great names upon his tongue for them to honor, the names of electricity's pioneers�Volt, Ampere, Ohm, Faraday, Hertz, Kelvin, Helmholtz, Gauss, Coulomb.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Such famous figures as the scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla and Physicist Michael Pupin come to our memory.
From Time Magazine Archive
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This Pupin invention involved another improvement unsuspected by the inventor, which shows us the telephone in all its mystery and beauty and even its sublimity.
From The Age of Big Business; a chronicle of the captains of industry by Hendrick, Burton Jesse
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