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, Serb immigrant boy, now professor of electromechanics, Columbia University; inventor of electrical "tuning," the resonator, inductance coil, etc.; author of From Immigrant to Inventor.
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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