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Pupin

American  
[pyoo-peen, poo-peen] / pjuˈpin, 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

Since Consul Karovitch will shortly return to Jugoslavia, Professor Pupin addressed to him a warm personal farewell.

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

His researches resulted in the famous "Pupin coil" by the expedient now known as "loading."

From The Age of Big Business; a chronicle of the captains of industry by Hendrick, Burton Jesse

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