Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin - Honors and Tributes

Honors and Tributes

Mihajlo Pupin was:

• President of the Institute of Radio Engineers, USA (1917)
• President of American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1925–26).
• President of American Association for the Advancement of Sciences
• President of New York Academy of Sciences
• Honorary member of German Electrical Society
• Honorary member of American Institute of Electrical Engineers
• Member of National Academy of Sciences
• Member of French Academy of Sciences
• Member of Serbian Academy of sciences
• Member of American Mathematical Society
• Member of American Philosophical Society
• Member of American Physical Society

Titles

• Doctor of science, Columbia University (1904)
• Honorable doctor of science, Johns Hopkins University (1915)
• Doctor of science, Princeton University (1924)
• Honorable doctor of science, New York University (1924)
• Honorable doctor of science, Muhlenberg College (1924)
• Doctor of engineering, Case School of Applied Science (1925)
• Doctor of science, George Washington University (1925)
• Doctor of science, Union College (1925)
• Honorable doctor of science, Mariette College (1926)
• Honorable doctor of science, University of California (1926)
• Doctor of science, Rutgers University (1926)
• Honorable doctor of science, Delaware University (1926)
• Honorable doctor of science, Canyon College (1926)
• Doctor of science, Brown University (1927)
• Doctor of science, Rochester University (1927)
• Honorable doctor of science, Middlebury College (1928)
• Doctor of science, university in Belgrade (1929)
• Doctor of science, University in Prague (1929)

Medals

• Eliot Kresson Medal of Franklin Institute (1902)
• Herbert award of French academy (1916)
• Edison's medal of American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1919)
• Honorable medal of American radio institute (1924)
• Honorable medal of institute of social sciences (1924)
• Prize George Washington from western association of engineers (1928)
• White eagle, first degree, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1929)
• White lion, first degree, the greatest medal of Czech-Slovakia (1929)
• Medal John Fritz, four American national association engineers electromechanics (1931)

Other

• Pupin was pictured on the old 50 million Yugoslav dinar banknote.
• Home page world web browser Google has been dedicated on October 9, 2011, to 157th birth anniversary of scientist Mihajlo Pupin. On the drawing in honor of the Pupin birth symbolically represented as a boy and a girl with two different hills talking on the phone.
• The Central Radio Institute was renamed the Telecommunication and Automation Institute "Mihailo Pupin" in his honor in 1956.
• A small lunar impact crater, in the eastern part of the Mare Imbrium, was named in his honor.
• He also served on the board of trustees for Science Service, now known as Society for Science & the Public, from 1926-1929.
• Honorary citizen, city of Zrenjanin
• Various streets and schools across Serbia are named after him; Boulevard of Mihajlo Pupin (in capital city, Belgrade) or tenth Belgrade gymnasium - Mihajlo Pupin, being the most famous examples.