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| Mihajlo Pupin |
Mihajlo Pupin (1858-1935), physicist, electric engineer and inventor, was born in the village of Idvor in Banat, Serbia. He attended schools in Prague, New York, Cambridge and Berlin where he received his doctor's degree. He was the professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia university in New York. He created 24 epochal inventions. The best known are "Pupin's coils" for transmission of telephone conversation to long distances. Pupin received the prestigious Edison's medal and Pulitzer Prize for his autobiographic book "Immigrant to Inventor". He was proclaimed the honorary professor at 20 world universities and was the first chairman of the New York Academy of Sciences born outside the United States of America. His personal friends were the US president Woodrow Wilson and Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein.
He died in New York in 1935, on the same date when he arrived in that city 61 years ago.
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