Michael I. Pupin

Michael I. Pupin (Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, 1858-1935) was a Serbian-American physicist, inventor, and author who emigrated from Idvor, Serbia (then Austrian Empire), to the United States as a teenager, later becoming a professor at Columbia University. His most notable work is the autobiography From Immigrant to Inventor (1923), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1924.