A recluse is a person who lives in voluntary seclusion from the public and society.
 The word is from the Latin "recludere", which means "shut up" or "sequester".
 Historically, the word referred to a hermit's total isolation from the world.
 Examples are Symeon of Trier, who lived within the great Roman gate Porta Nigra with permission from the Archbishop of Trier, or Theophan the Recluse, the 19th-century Russian Orthodox monk who was later glorified as a saint.
 Celebrated figures who spent, or have spent, significant portions of their lives as recluses include Virgil, Michelangelo, Isaac Newton, Emily Brontë, J. D. Salinger, Emily Dickinson, Gustave Flaubert, Paul Cézanne, Nikola Tesla, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, H.P. Lovecraft, Marie Curie, Marcel Proust, Howard Hughes, Greta Garbo, Jackson Pollock, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Jean-Luc Godard, Thomas Pynchon, John Swartzwelder, Paul Allen, Layne Staley and Michael Jackson.
Pedro Eleodoro Paulet Mostajo (July 2, 1874 – January 30, 1945) was a Peruvian inventor who allegedly in 1895 was the first person to build a liquid-fuel rocket engine and, in 1900, the first person to build a modern rocket propulsion system.
 German V-2 inventor Wernher von Braun considered Paulet one of the "fathers of aeronautics."
 The National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C., has a small plaque honoring the memory of Paulet.
Kir Joakim () was a Serbian Orthodox monk, choirmaster ("domestikos"), and the oldest Serbian composer of liturgical melodies.
 He signed himself "sir Joakim, monk and domestikos of Serbia" (кир Јоаким, монах и доместик Србије).
 Older sources state he lived in the 15th century, while newer sources state that he lived in the 14th century (1360–85).
 Serbian-American musicologist Miloš Velimirović (1922–2008) made a study on him, "Joakim monah i domestik Srbije" (1964).
 The manuscript mentioning him with his titles was dated by Velimirović to before 1453.
 He lived at the Charsianitos Monastery in Constantinople.
 The Athens National Library has two Koinonika, a Theotokion, and three Vespers, in Greek, by Kir Joakim (as of 1969).
 Along with Isaiah the Serb, Kir Stefan the Serb and Nikola the Serb, he is part of medieval Serbian musical heritage, which is also part of Byzantine heritage.
 One of his works, "Kratima Terirem" (Κράτημα 'Τεριρέμ), was included in Dragoslav Aksentijević-Pavle's album "Music of Old Serbia" (1987).
The surname Tilbrook is derived from an English local source.
 Local surnames were derived from the place where a person once lived, or a prominent local geographical feature, perhaps a hill identified one person from another who lived near a bridge, river, lake, etc.
Biljana D. Obradoviċ, a Serbian-American poet, critic, translator, and Professor of English has lived in Yugoslavia, Greece, and India besides the United States.
Nikola Tesla ( ; ; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist who is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
Sybilla Masters (c. 1676 – 23 August 1720), born Sybilla Righton, was an American inventor.
 Masters was the first person residing in the American colonies to be given an English patent, and possibly the first known inventor of her sex in America.
 Masters was given a patent for a corn mill in 1715 in her husband's name, as women were not allowed to have their own patents in that time and place.
 She also patented a process for making hats.
The Secret of Nikola Tesla (), is a 1980 Yugoslav biographical film which details events in the life of the Serbian-American engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), portrayed by Serbian actor Petar Božović.
 Tesla grew up in the Austro-Hungarian Empire), studied engineering and physics, and moved to New York in 1884.
 He became an American citizen in 1891 and is known for his contributions to electrical engineering.
D. K. (Dragoljub Kosta) or "Gish" Jovanovich (January 24, 1916 – November 12, 1983) was born in Yugoslavia (pre-Communist Kingdom of Yugoslavia).
 He lived in Philadelphia and later settled in Southern California.
 He was a Serbian-American helicopter designer, inventor, and pioneer in autogyro technology.
Amentes (Ancient Greek: Ἀμήντης ) was an ancient Greek surgeon, mentioned by Galen as the inventor of some ingenious bandages.
 Some fragments of the works of a surgeon named Amynias (of which name Amentes is very possibly a corruption) still exist in the manuscript "Collection of Surgical Writers" by Nicetas, and one extract is preserved by Oribasius in the fourth volume of Angelo Mai's collection "Classici Auctores e Vaticanis Codicibus".
 His date is unknown, except that he must have lived in or before the 2nd century.
 He may perhaps be the same person who is said by the Scholiast on Theocritus to have been put to death by Ptolemy II Philadelphus, around 264 BC, for plotting against his life.

Question: This Serbian-American inventor was a person you lived in volantary seculsion from who?
Answer: the public and society