Abstract
THIS autobiography of Michael Pupin is of great human interest, and well deserves study by educationists. It gives one the impression of a boy of strong physique and sound common sense who made his way through the world with little fear of the future and with a profound reverence for the past. It will be read with special interest by those who knew Cambridge in 1884-85 and Berlin in 1885-86, when Hertz's discoveries first began to be discussed. It will also be of interest to those who know the Isle of Arran in the Firth of Clyde, as this island and its inhabitants made a great impression on one who as a boy had herded cattle at Idvor, a small village in Serbia. The main object of the book, as the author says in chapter xi., is to describe “the rise of idealism in American science,” but from the point of view of dwellers on the east side of the Atlantic, this question is not of such interest as the story of his early life.
From Immigrant to Inventor.
By Prof. Michael Pupin. Pp. vii + 396 + 16 plates. (New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923.) 18s.
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RUSSELL, A. From Immigrant to Inventor. Nature 113, 186–188 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113186a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/113186a0