Michael Pupin academic career

In this lecture the sketch of the academic career of Michal Pupin will be presented. After finishing his studies at Columbia University, he went to Cambridge and at the end made his Ph.D. in Berlin (mentor was Helmholz). He returned to USA and was professor at Columbia University until the retainment. He founded the first genuine Physics Laboratory in USA. His scientific results will be shortly described. His patents will be commented, as well as some important discoveries (especially pupinization). At the end its pedagogical and organizational work will be presented.