Mihajlo Pupin was a scientist who hailed from Serbia and is renowned for his patented works
Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin
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Oct 9, 1858
Biography
Personal Details
- Birthday: October 9, 1858
- Died on: March 12, 1935
- Nationality: Serbian
- Famous: Millionaires, Cambridge University, Columbia University, Scientists, Physicists
- Spouses: Sarah Catharine Jackson
- Known as: Michael I. Pupin, Michael Idvorsky Pupin, Michael Pupin, Mihajlo Pupin
- Childrens: Barbara Pupin
Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin born at
Idvor
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Birth Place
In 1888, he married Sarah Catharine Jackson, who belonged to New York. The couple were blessed with a daughter, whom they named Barbara.
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Personal Life
Throughout his career, he had written a number of literary pieces such as articles and scientific theories. Some of his authored books are ‘The New Reformation’ and ‘Romance of the Machines’.
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Personal Life
On 12th March 1935, this eminent scientist breathed his last in New York .His grave is located in the ‘Woodlawn Cemetery’, Bronx.
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Personal Life
He was born to Olimpijada Pupin and Constantine Pupin on 9th October 1858, in Idvor, Serbia.
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Childhood & Early Life
He did his elementary schooling from institutes such as ‘Serbian Orthodox School’ and ‘German Elementary School’. Later, he joined a high school located in Pančevo, and in 1872, he went to Prague to pursue further studies. However, his father’s death caused him to leave Prague due to financial constraints.
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Childhood & Early Life
In March 1874, he travelled to the United States, after discontinuing his studies owing to financial constraints. The initial days in the US for this scientist were pretty difficult. He then engaged in some unskilled jobs to support himself and at the same time learned different languages.
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Career
In 1879, he qualified for a Bachelor’s degree in arts at the ‘Columbia College’, and joined the institute to pursue his graduation.
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Career
He completed his Bachelor’s degree in the year 1883 and the same year he gained a US citizenship.
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Career
He then, went on to study Physics and Electrical engineering at the ‘University of Cambridge’, situated in England, as well as the ‘University of Berlin’, Germany.
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Career
At Berlin, his mentor was the renowned German physicist Herman von Helmholtz and under the latter’s guidance Pupin completed his Ph.D. dissertation called ‘Osmotic Pressure and Its Relationship to Free Energy’.
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Career
His invention of the ‘Pupin coil’ was a great achievement in the world of science and it helped the society in general by providing an enhanced range for distant telephonic communication. The patent rights of this invention were bought by the ‘American Telephone and Telegraph Company’, which made him a rich man.
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Major Works:
He has many more inventions to his credit and he has patented almost thirty-four of his inventions.
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Major Works: