Serbian-American physicist and chemist known for long-distance telephone communications which he achieved by placing loading coils along the transmitting wire ("pupinisation"). He held several patents and also won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
Mihajlo Pupin was born on 9 October, 1858
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