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BY the death of Michael Idvorsky Pupin in New York on March 12 at the age of seventy-six years, we lose a mathematical physicist who has played an important part in engineering progress since the end of last century. The son of Serbian peasants, he emigrated at tjie age of sixteen years to New York, where he started to earn his living with only five cents in his pocket. After many struggles, during which he supported himself by manual labour, he gained free tuition at the entrance examination to Columbia University in 1879 and distinguished himself by winning many prizes both for his studies and at athletics. After graduating, he became a naturalised citizen of the United States.
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R., A. Prof. M. I. Pupin. Nature 135, 461–462 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135461a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/135461a0