From Immigrant to Inventor

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From Immigrant to Inventor is the Pulitzer Prize–winning autobiography of physicist and inventor Michael I. Pupin, chronicling his journey from a poor Serbian immigrant to a prominent American scientist and educator.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Pulitzer Prize-winning work
autobiography
non-fiction book
about Serbian-American identity
scientific innovation in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
social mobility through education
author Michael I. Pupin
awardReceived Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
countryOfOrigin United States
describes Michael I. Pupin’s early life in Serbia
Michael I. Pupin’s immigration to America
Michael I. Pupin’s scientific career
Michael I. Pupin’s work as an educator
genre autobiography
memoir
hasInfluenced historical understanding of early American telecommunications research
literature on immigrant success stories
hasNarrativeForm first-person narrative
language English
literaryPeriod 20th-century literature
mainSubject Michael I. Pupin
education
immigration to the United States
science and invention
notableFor account of the development of modern physics and engineering in the United States
depiction of the immigrant experience in America
publicationDate 1923
publisher Scribner’s
setting Serbia
United States

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Michael I. Pupin
Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin
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