The Most Famous
PHYSICISTS from Serbia
This page contains a list of the greatest Serbian Physicists. The pantheon dataset contains 851 Physicists, 1 of which were born in Serbia. This makes Serbia the birth place of the 45th most number of Physicists behind Armenia, and Bulgaria.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Serbian Physicists of all time. This list of famous Serbian Physicists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Mihajlo Pupin (1858 - 1935)
With an HPI of 64.20, Mihajlo Pupin is the most famous Serbian Physicist. His biography has been translated into 35 different languages on wikipedia.
Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin (Serbian Cyrillic: Михајло Идворски Пупин, pronounced [miˈxǎjlo ˈîdʋoɾski ˈpǔpin]; 4 October 1858 – 12 March 1935), also known as Michael Pupin, was a Serbian physicist, physical chemist and philanthropist based in the United States. Pupin is best known for his numerous patents, including a means of greatly extending the range of long-distance telephone communication by placing loading coils (of wire) at predetermined intervals along the transmitting wire (known as "pupinization"). Pupin was a founding member of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) on 3 March 1915, which later became NASA, and he participated in the founding of American Mathematical Society and American Physical Society. In 1924, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his autobiography. 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. He was also 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.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Serbian physicists born between 1858 and 1858. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Serbian physicists include Mihajlo Pupin.
