MIHAJLO PUPIN - PULITZER PRIZE WINNER

BIJELJINA, APRIL 30 /SRNA/ – Mihajlo Pupin, a renowned American physicist of Serb origin, received the Pulitzer Prize on May 1, 1924.

The Pulitzer was awarded to Pupin for his autobiographical work "From Immigrant to Inventor".

The Pulitzer Prize is a prestigious award given annually in the United States for achievements in journalism, history, literature, and music.

Pupin was born in 1854 and, from his native Idvor in Banat, after schooling in Pančevo and Prague, he went to the United States in 1874, where he graduated from Columbia University in New York.

He later became a professor of theoretical physics and served as president of the Institute of Radio Engineers for 40 years.

The electrical resonator, which enabled the simultaneous transmission of messages over the same conductor at different wavelengths, was the first of Pupin's many inventions.

With his greatest discovery self-induction coils /Pupin coils/. Pupin made it possible to transmit telephone conversations over long distances.

He also discovered secondary radiation of X-rays, electromagnetic detectors, and authored a university textbook on thermodynamics.

For his scientific work, Pupin was awarded the Edison Medal in 1920.

The Kingdom of Serbia appointed Pupin as honorary consul in the United States in 1912.

He held this position until 1920, and from that role greatly contributed to the establishment of interstate and broader social relations between the Kingdom of Serbia /later the Kingdom of Yugoslavia/ and the United States.

After the end of the Great War, as an already well-known and recognized scientist, as well as a politically influential figure in America, Pupin influenced the final decisions of the Paris Peace Conference, when the borders of the future Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes were being determined.

Mihajlo Pupin died in 1935.