Awards & Winners

Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin

Date of Birth 09-October-1858
Place of Birth Idvor
(Vojvodina)
Nationality Serbia, United States of America
Also know as Michael I. Pupin, Michael Idvorsky Pupin, Michael Pupin, Михајло Идворски Пупин, Mihajlo Pupin
Profession Inventor, Physicist, Scientist, Engineer, Chemist, Professor
Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Ph.D., LL.D., also known as Michael I. Pupin, was a Serbian and American physicist and physical chemist. 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 March 3, 1915, which later became NASA.

Awards by Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin

Check all the awards nominated and won by Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin.

1924


Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
Honored for : From Immigrant to Inventor
IEEE Medal of Honor
(in recognition of his fundamental contributions in the field of electrical tuning and the rectification of alternating currents used for signalling purposes)