From Immigrant to Inventor

Pupin, Michael

A Serbian American Memoir of Science, Education, Faith, and the American Dream

13,60 €

ISBN: 9788027380466

Breite: 15,2 cm

Höhe: 22,9 cm

Gewicht: 298 g

Produktinformationen "From Immigrant to Inventor"

From Immigrant to Inventor is Michael Pupin's richly reflective autobiography, tracing his journey from rural Idvor in Banat to the laboratories and lecture halls of America. More than a success narrative, the book examines education, faith, scientific curiosity, and democratic opportunity through a prose style at once lucid, earnest, and morally charged. Situated within early twentieth-century immigrant literature and the tradition of scientific memoir, it links personal advancement to the broader energies of American modernity. Pupin himself was unusually placed to write such a work: born in 1858 to Serbian peasant parents in the Habsburg borderlands, he emigrated to the United States as a youth, worked menial jobs, studied at Columbia, Cambridge, and Berlin, and became a distinguished physicist, inventor, and teacher. His experiences of poverty, displacement, religious inheritance, and intellectual discipline inform the memoir's central conviction that talent flourishes when nourished by institutions, mentors, and civic freedom. Readers interested in immigration, invention, or the ethical meanings of education will find this volume rewarding. It offers not only the record of a remarkable life, but also a thoughtful meditation on how science, character, and belonging can be forged across continents.

Eigenschaften "From Immigrant to Inventor"

Format:	Taschenbuch / Softcover
Thema/BIC:	Biografien: Wissenschaft, Technologie und Medizin
Verlag:	e-artnow

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