Michael I. Pupin

E8093

Serbian-American person academic author inventor physicist

Michael I. Pupin was a Serbian-American physicist and inventor known for his pioneering work in telecommunications and long-distance telephone transmission.

Aliases (5)

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Serbian-American person → academic → author → inventor → physicist →
awardReceived	IEEE Edison Medal → Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography →
birthDate	1858-10-09 →
birthPlace	Austrian Empire → Idvor → present-day Serbia →
citizenshipAcquired	naturalized citizen of the United States →
countryOfCitizenship	Serbia → United States of America →
deathDate	1935-03-12 →
deathPlace	New York City →
educatedAt	City College of New York → Columbia University → University of Berlin → University of Cambridge →
employer	Columbia University →
ethnicGroup	Serbs →
familyName	Pupin →
fieldOfWork	electrical engineering → physics → telecommunications →
fullName	Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin →
genre	autobiography →
givenName	Mihajlo →
hasAcademicDiscipline	applied physics → electromagnetism →
influenced	development of long-distance telephone networks →
knownFor	contributions to telecommunications engineering → loading coils for long-distance telephony → pupinization of telephone lines → work on long-distance telephone transmission →
languageSpoken	English → Serbian →
memberOf	American Institute of Electrical Engineers → National Academy of Sciences (United States) → Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts →
nativeName	Михајло Идворски Пупин →
notableIdea	use of loading coils to reduce signal distortion in telephone lines →
notableWork	From Immigrant to Inventor →
occupation	university professor →
positionHeld	professor of electromechanics at Columbia University →
religion	Serbian Orthodox Church →
residence	New York City →

Referenced by (12)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin → Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin ("Michael Pupin") →	alsoKnownAs
Idvor ("Mihajlo Pupin") → Idvor ("Michael Pupin") →	birthplaceOf
Edwin H. Armstrong →	academicAdvisor
From Immigrant to Inventor →	author
Michael I. Pupin ("Pupin") →	familyName
Michael I. Pupin ("Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin") →	fullName
Mihajlo ("Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin") →	hasNotableBearer
Edison Medal →	hasRecipient
From Immigrant to Inventor →	mainSubject
Michael I. Pupin ("Михајло Идворски Пупин") →	nativeName