page_title: Mihajlo Pupin
section_title: Literary work
hierarchical_section_title: Mihajlo Pupin / Literary work
caption_attribution_description: English: Pupin Hall, home of the Physics Department at en:Columbia University.
context_page_description: Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Ph.D., LL.D., also known as Michael I. Pupin was a Serbian-American physicist, physical chemist, philanthropist.
  Pupin is best known for his numerous patents, including a means of greatly extending the range of long-distance telephone communication by placing loading coils at predetermined intervals along the transmitting wire. Pupin was a founding member of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics on 3 March 1915, which later became NASA, and he participated in the founding of American Mathematical Society and American Physical Society.
  In 1924, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his autobiography. Pupin was elected president or vice-president of the highest scientific and technical institutions, such as the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the New York Academy of Sciences, the Radio Institute of America, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was also an honorary consul of Serbia in the United States from 1912 to 1920 and played a role in determining the borders of newly formed Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
context_section_description: Besides his patents he published several dozen scientific disputes, articles, reviews and a 396-page autobiography under the name Michael Pupin, From Immigrant to Inventor (Scribner's, 1923). He won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. It was published in Serbian in 1929 under the title From pastures to scientist (Od pašnjaka do naučenjaka). Beside this he also published:
  Pupin Michael: Der Osmotische Druch und Seine Beziehung zur Freien Energie, Inaugural Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doctorwurde, Buchdruckerei von Gustav Shade, Berlin, June 1889.
  Pupin Michael: Thermodynamics of Reversible Cycles in Gases and Saturated Vapors, John Wiley & Sons. 1894.
  Pupin Michael: Serbian Orthodox Church (South Slav Monuments) J. Murray. London, 1918.
  Pupin Michael: Yugoslavia. (In Association for International Conciliation Amer. Branch —Yugoslavia). American Association for International Conciliation. 1919.
  Pupin Michael: The New Reformation; from Physical to Spiritual Realities, Scribner, New York, 1927.
  Pupin Michael: Romance of the Machine, Scribner, New York, 1930.
  Pupin Michael: Discussion by M. Pupin and other prominent engineers in Toward Civilization, edited by C. A. Beard. Longmans, Green & Co. New York, 1930.
caption: Pupin Hall at Columbia University
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