30 Facts About Mihajlo Pupin

Mihajlo 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.

Mihajlo 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.

Mihajlo Pupin was 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 Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

Mihajlo Pupin always remembered the words of his mother and cited her in his autobiography, From Immigrant to Inventor :.

Mihajlo Pupin went to elementary school in his birthplace, to Serbian Orthodox school, and later to German elementary school in Perlez.

Mihajlo Pupin enrolled in high school in Pancevo, and later in the Real Gymnasium.

Mihajlo Pupin was one of the best students there; a local archpriest saw his enormous potential and talent, and influenced the authorities to give Pupin a scholarship.

Mihajlo Pupin graduated with honors in 1883 and became an American citizen at the same time.

Mihajlo Pupin was an early investigator into X-ray imaging, but his claim to have made the first X-ray image in the United States is incorrect.

Mihajlo Pupin learned of Rontgen's discovery of unknown rays passing through wood, paper, insulators, and thin metals leaving traces on a photographic plate, and attempted this himself.

Mihajlo Pupin was the first person to use a fluorescent screen to enhance X-rays for medical purposes.

Mihajlo Pupin conducted research in the field of establishing telecommunications between places.

Pan-Serb ideology was, Mihajlo Pupin said, "a natural heritage of every true Serb".

Mihajlo Pupin stayed in Paris for two months during the peace talk on the insistence of the government.

In 1914, Mihajlo Pupin formed "Fund Olimpijada Aleksic-Mihajlo Pupin" within the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts to commemorate his mother Olimpijada for all the support she gave him through life.

Mihajlo Pupin established a foundation in the museum of Natural History and Arts in Belgrade.

Mihajlo Pupin invested a million dollars in the funds of the foundation.

Mihajlo Pupin organized "Kolo srpskih sestara" who gathered help for the Serbian Red Cross, and he helped the gathering of volunteers to travel to Serbia during the First World War with the help of the Serbian patriotic organization called the "Serbian National Defense Council" which he founded and led.

Mihajlo Pupin guaranteed the delivery of food supplies to Serbia with his own resources, and he was the head of the committee that provided help to the victims of war.

Mihajlo Pupin founded the Serbian society for helping children which provided medicine, clothes and shelter for war orphans.

Mihajlo Pupin won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.

In 1934 Urey was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the work he performed in Mihajlo Pupin Hall related to his discovery of "heavy hydrogen".

Mihajlo Pupin released about 70 technical articles and reviews and 34 patents.

Mihajlo Pupin's father was named Constantine and mother Olimpijada and Pupin had four brothers and five sisters.

In 1888 he married American Sarah Catharine Jackson from New York, with whom he had a daughter named Barbara Ivanka Mihajlo Pupin who was born in 1899 in Yonkers, New York and died on August 2,1962 in New York.

Mihajlo Pupin had a reputation not only as a great scientist but a fine person.

Mihajlo Pupin was known for his manners, great knowledge, love of his homeland and availability to everyone.

Mihajlo Pupin was a great philanthropist and patron of the arts.

Mihajlo Pupin died in New York City in 1935 at age 76 and was interred at Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx.

Mihajlo Pupin is included in The 100 most prominent Serbs.